U.S.S. Enterprise final voyage

[anaphylaxis]

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019608039_enterprise05.html?prmid=head_main

So we have no aircraft carrier or Space Shuttle named Enterprise anymore. UNSAT.

I was in the D.C. and Virginia area a couple months ago, walking around various museums and seeing all of the Cool Shit that we, as nation, used to make. Apollo capsules, the Space Shuttle at the Smithsonian just south of Dulles, etc. Anymore, hell, we just let the Russians do it. Pathetic.

[sniper7]

very cool ship! sad to see it go.

Saw a couple carriers in PHL today as well.

I think I read in the paper today that shipbuilders will be seeing an increase over the next 4 years. I think it said something like 5,000 new jobs

[Fmedges]

I'm still amazed that after the Apollo program, they settled for low earth orbit missions. We still benefit today from technology that they pioneered 40 years ago. Just imagine where we would be if they kept it up. It's almost as if we as a society stopped things that has risks associated with them. I would of given anything to see one of these things going up. This video illustrates my point. The USA on the side of the thing almost brings a tear to my eye.

CXIW1eEzrFM

another ones of my favorites

cSrAF5DgknM

[clublights]

CVN-80 I think ? Better be named Enterprise !!!!!

I'm tired of carriers named after presidents.... lets get back to naming them after past ships of the line.

[anaphylaxis]

very cool ship! sad to see HER go.

FIFY

[anaphylaxis]

It's almost as if we as a society stopped things that has risks associated with them. I would of given anything to see one of these things going up. This video illustrates my point. The USA on the side of the thing almost brings a tear to my eye.


This statement is so true. Greatness now is extremist. We collectively are now incredibly adverse to risk.

[wctriumph]

I'm pretty sure that there will always be a ship, space or otherwise, named Enterprise in the US fleet.

Always.





TEA

[sneakerd]

There should certainly NOT be a USS William Jefferson Clinton [Puke][Puke]
Hopefully that ship, the 2nd in the new advanced line, will be the new USS Enterprise.

[merl]

There should certainly NOT be a USS William Jefferson Clinton .

be a good name for a submarine

[mtnrider]

So we have no aircraft carrier or Space Shuttle named Enterprise anymore. UNSAT.

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Damit Jim! ....Very UNSAT

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[ronaldrwl]

I'm pretty sure that there will always be a ship, space or otherwise, named Enterprise in the US fleet.

Always.

+1

[Troublco]

be a good name for a submarine

As long as it has a screen door...[ROFL1]

[sneakerd]

Better a garbage scow.

[tmckay2]

aside from a mission to mars, which would be incredibly expensive and unknown usefulness, we are simply limited by our knowledge of physics. they pushed he envelope with the apollo missions but the step from the moon to beyond is a big one with challenges not just in materials but understanding on science.


I'm still amazed that after the Apollo program, they settled for low earth orbit missions. We still benefit today from technology that they pioneered 40 years ago. Just imagine where we would be if they kept it up. It's almost as if we as a society stopped things that has risks associated with them. I would of given anything to see one of these things going up. This video illustrates my point. The USA on the side of the thing almost brings a tear to my eye.

CXIW1eEzrFM

another ones of my favorites

cSrAF5DgknM

[IShouldDoThisAllTheTime]

aside from a mission to mars, which would be incredibly expensive and unknown usefulness, we are simply limited by our knowledge of physics. they pushed he envelope with the apollo missions but the step from the moon to beyond is a big one with challenges not just in materials but understanding on science.

Hmm? Physics isn't stopping us from mining asteroids. Physics isn't stopping us from having routine tourist flights to LEO or the moon.

Materials? It's true that we don't have materials for space elevators or skintight space suits; but then we haven't really been looking very hard, have we? And while those would be pretty neat improvements over what we have now, but it's not like the lack of either of those is keeping us on the ground.

Armadillo Aerospace has had controllable vehicles with suborbital-capable delta vee since late 2007. No physics problem there. SpaceX flew to the ISS last month. No physics problem there.

Physics and materials science aren't the limiting factor. NASA kept a stranglehold on space exploration for four decades, and by the time it finally-kinda-sorta got lifted everyone who knew anything useful was dead or senile. Armadillo didn't start from scratch just for fun.

Physics, pshaw. NASA killed the dream.

[Atrain1]

My Dad worked on this ship.