Where Are The Artemis-Inspired Advertisements?
This is #Apollo inspired advertising from half a century ago.
Where are the #Artemis inspired advertisements today? pic.twitter.com/WDssD3Qdfy
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 15, 2020
This is #Apollo inspired advertising from half a century ago.
Where are the #Artemis inspired advertisements today? pic.twitter.com/WDssD3Qdfy
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 15, 2020
A PowerPoint ad perhaps?
It needs to fly first. Perhaps in 5-10 years.
I built one of those LEM models!
Again, goes to show Artemis and the space program has no bearing for just about everyone. Like Ferraris, they exist but since almost everyone will never be able to get one then they don’t exist.
Maybe it’s just me, but after all this time, the lunar module still has a “modern” look about it. A nice blend of form and function.
It’s so ugly…that it’s elegant. Somehow…it works aesthetically. It just seemed ‘right’ to me.
My father had Grumman as a client back in the 60s. He often recalled just how much of a shock it was to see the LM back then in the factory for the first time. It was so NOT what a spaceship was supposed to look like that it was difficult to accept it as real.
And, today, we have SX’s Starship…which looks EXACTLY like what a spacecraft was supposed to look like then. Oh, the irony.
To paraphrase the old saying – The LEM was a spacecraft designed by a committee…
There is design magic in both vehicles: in each form follows function. and both are bespoke examples of something often left out of that pithy saying.
In my business we use the term ‘program’ as a catch-all description: “this is what I want the device to do.” In architecture, a program list for a house would include the number of bedrooms, size of kitchen, etc. A precise program might lead to excellent design. A poor program never will.
Design engineers use the same notion. And this explains why the LEM, and recent proposals from Mr. Bezos, are so similar.
Mr. Musk was dancing to an entirely different tune…or program, which is why his machine looks different. But stars follows the SpaceX program as elegantly as Grumman or BO.
Well, for one thing we still don’t know exactly what the landed will look like.