News NASA's Future: The News and Updates Thread

[Urwumpe]

Well, in Germany we also love exceptions to all our rules!

And I've never heard of Pagnappff. Probably because I served in a battalion that was taken over by the US Army and consisted of more than 50% civilian employees.

Pagnaappf is deeply infantry, so don't worry about never learning it. I think even tank batallion recruits didn't learn it.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

AbküFi is fun, almost like TLA in the US.

 

[Sunhillow]

Ookay ... back to NASA's future, which is currently being crushed between two elephants running through a porcelain shop

 

[Linguofreak]

All my english teachers are screaming in my head that 'An ULA' is correct, but man does that not feel right to say it.

If you're just pronouncing "ULA" letter-by-letter "You-ell-ay", then "a ULA" is correct because the name of the letter U begins with a y sound. Same goes if you're pronouncing the acronym the same as you would "EULA" ("you-luh"). If you're pronouncing it "ulla" or "ooluh", then you'd use "an".

The one thing that determines whether you use "a" or "an" is if the next word begins with a Vowel, as pronounced (not as spelt).

 

[N_Molson]

Orion could, in theory, also be launched by other launchers. But that will also cost money.... The real joke could be a Orion on a Ariane 6, so Europe pays for saving the US face.... (Of course, Orion could use some downgrading to become just a space station taxi and Ariane 6 would need a major performance upgrade since Orion is a massive spacecraft.... its launch mass is heavier than Dragon and Starliner together...)

I must say an Ariane 6 / Orion LV would be quite cool. @jacquesmomo : could make nice 'what if ?' scenarii for your addon

Now my take on this is that retiring both the Atlas V & the Delta IV EELVs was simply criminal. At least we know who benefited from the crime...

 

[jacquesmomo]

@jacquesmomo : could make nice 'what if ?' scenarii for your addon

Why not ???

When I finish the update for Orbiter 2024 I'll think about it....

 

[Thunder Chicken]

All my english teachers are screaming in my head that 'An ULA' is correct, but man does that not feel right to say it.

I just say "ULA" without the article, pronounced like the name of Ulla in The Producers.

 

[Urwumpe]

Why not Uniform Lima Alfa?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Why not Uniform Lima Alfa?

Because ULA = Ulla has much more pleasant memory associations than the phonetic alphabet.

 

[Linguofreak]

I suppose there's also the Return of the Jedi option:

"ULA! Hahahahahahaha!"

 

[Arvil]

Or the old fashioned Ooooh! La La!

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Or the old fashioned Ooooh! La La!

ULA Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen-Hallen Svaden-Swansson

 

[Frilock]

Or the old fashioned Ooooh! La La!

 

[richfororbit]

So the Mars mission is pretty much gone

 

[TIKVA]

good

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1937932466250977395

 

[richfororbit]

Perhaps, it is time to close up shop. We'll wait for contact from the other side.

Heil!

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1940123455959044257

 

[GLS]

... but money still exists for this insanity

https://twitter.com/x/status/1939757493162258775

 

[Thunder Chicken]

... but money still exists for this insanity

https://twitter.com/x/status/1939757493162258775

The Discovery display at Udvar-Hazy is one of the most bad-ass displays of flight hardware anywhere:

Why do they want to wreck this and waste taxpayer's money doing it? It seems all they want to do is break everything good about the US and waste money doing it.