If that headline doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about Artemis…
The sooner this program gets canned the better. Suppliers aren’t even pretending to give value for money anymore.
The sooner this program gets canned the better. Suppliers aren’t even pretending to give value for money anymore.
When it comes to manufacturing small quantities of high quality textiles (which is, in part, exactly what a spacesuit is), this is exactly the kind of business partnership that makes sense.
The least value for money parts are pretty much entirely SLS related, with most of them involving blank checks handed out to legacy contractors with no real consequences for poor performance.
> "I'm very proud of the result we're showing today," said Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group chief marketing officer and head of corporate social responsibility. "We've shared our expertise on high-performance materials, features and sewing techniques, and we learned a lot."
A lot of people look down on these types of fashion brands, as of the fashion industry isn’t a huge important part of humanity, allowing us to keep our bodies safe from the weather and conditions outdoors. Fashion is one of the most important and well researched industries, and the technology they innovate with is the whole reason we can even begin to think about sending humans to space.
Do you think a bunch of nerds in NASA are able to understand the best stitching and materials to use, and how to best design joints to allow the great freedom of movement? No way, you need the experts, like Prada.
> A lot of people look down on these types of fashion brands
That strawperson has nothing to do with me or how well Prada can deliver.
> Do you think a bunch of nerds in NASA are able to understand
They do pretty well; I wouldn't dismiss them. They're leading technology organization in the history of humanity. And they have much more experience making space suits than Prada - or anyone else in the world. Also, your comment about NASA is not unlike the strawperson comments about Prada that you criticize.
Sure, you are giving points post-argument that seem to make some sort of sense, but your argument reads to me as if you're just arguing for argument sake that there is some possible way that this procurement strategy is wrong because Prada is involved, rather than looking at the whole picture and trying to determine why they would pick Prada at all. My comments go towards many reasons Prada has the "right stuff", but your comments seem to simply be nit-picking my arguments. Do you have any reason to believe Prada being involved is a bad thing, and if so please provide at least a shred of logic other than, "they're not qualified" when you clearly haven't even considered them as a technology leader? Do you have a better suggestion, considering a literal space tech company is the lead on this project, anyways? I feel like the male tech nerds here are just fighting some nebulous idea of Prada, feel free to prove me wrong.
Your impressions of my motives are irrelevant (and false). I'm not here to prove them wrong or right.