I waded into the social media landscape in rocketry/space only recently in the last 4 years and looking back at old posts from 2015 or so it's quite stunning how the monkeys have taken over the zoo
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Sorry, I meant I was there in 2007, & later when all became "IP/ITAR/proprietary" by default, instead of "shit I can study actual NASA docs and technical drawings", they said it was for the best.
So much burned at the altar of "commercialization"...
I was a big fan of Philip Sloss and his NSF articles on Orion/SLS precisely because they were very technical, but now NASA have clammed up and everything out there is politicised frothing at the mouth at the thought of giving everything to Starship. "Launch on 420 lol" memelords have taken over. Ugh
NASA at the moment didn't even send somebody to testify in today's Artemis Science Comittee hearing. I just listened to the whole thing and it was mentioned at the beginning that they were invited to do so, but refused.
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Sorry, I meant I was there in 2007, & later when all became "IP/ITAR/proprietary" by default, instead of "shit I can study actual NASA docs and technical drawings", they said it was for the best.
So much burned at the altar of "commercialization"...