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Amy Shira Teitel
Personal blog · amyshirateitel.comhistoryscience
Amy Shira Teitel's personal blog at amyshirateitel.com covers history and science. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Lost Art of the Saturn V”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Amy Shira Teitel's posts on space history, such as the decline of satellite engineering skills and NASA's Faster, Better, Cheaper policy, as background for discussions of rocket costs and programmes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Lost Art of the Saturn V4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-02-26
What Hacker News says?
I readed it before, but thanks for posting it anyway since it's really interesting read. Decide to link sources I was referring to. [1] http://amyshirateitel.com/2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-sat... [2] https://www.quora.com/How-did-we-lose-the-technology-to-go-t...
Comment linking /2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-saturn-v/
on “The Mir Space Station”Submitted The Lost Art of the Saturn V as a story · 132 points
HN discussionFor starters, Orion is still planned to cost from $500 million to $1 billion PER LAUNCH. Given that this is a government project, I'm gonna guess closer to the high bound. Second, the Saturn V/Apollo mission was a diplomatic show of muscle. Those who believe the SLS will be the future of manned space travel fail to appreciate that without the pressure of the Soviet Union, there is absolutely no way the project will…
Comment linking /2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-saturn-v/
on “Why the SpaceX landing is Better than Apollo 11”Submitted Soyuz 1: Falling to Earth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBuilding a new engine is, quite literally, rocket science. On the plus side, we know the problems can be solved, because we've done it before. On the minus side, a lot of that knowledge has been lost and needs to be recreated or redesigned. We can't easily rebuild the Saturn V, for example, even though its design would work well for many of today's launches. [1] New rockets are being designed, but its a major undert…
Comment linking /2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-saturn-v/
on “Antares rocket explosion: The question of using decades-old Soviet engines”Submitted RedBull’s Stratos Stunt - Where RedBull failed to Capitalise as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat you've outlined is the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" policy. You can read some about that history at http://amyshirateitel.com/2012/03/06/should-nasa-reconsider-... . The basic problem is that it costs something like $2,000/kg to get something out of earth orbit, and 1 kg doesn't get you much. For example, a literal "ton" of redundant sensors would cost $2 million. Just the launch cost for Galileo (to Jupiter) woul…
Comment linking /2012/03/06/should-nasa-reconsider-the-faster-better-cheaper-approach-to-exploringmars/
on “Ask HN: Making a low cost interplanetary "weather balloon"?”