#Bestof2021: #HotelMars: Long March 5B is a design flaw failure. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com; Jonathan McDowell, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian.
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🗓️ 14 July 2023
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#Bestof2021: #HotelMars: Long March 5B is a design flaw failure. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com; Jonathan McDowell, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian.
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/people/jonathan-mcdowell
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| 0:49.9 | This is CBSI on the World Hotel Mars episode N David Livingston, Dr. Space of |
| 0:56.2 | the Space Show. Join me as my colleague and co-pilot and David and I are both |
| 1:00.8 | curious and we want to know why the most recent success of the Chinese Communist |
| 1:07.6 | Party space program launching what is the beginning of a space station into |
| 1:13.0 | lower orbit. Also included the booster, the first-stage booster of the Long |
| 1:18.7 | March 5B rocket falling to earth uncontrolled. So uncontrolled that it |
| 1:25.2 | repeatedly took updates to know where it was going to fall on America, on Africa, |
| 1:30.5 | on Asia, in the ocean, a puzzle. Even to the point of the Secretary of Defense |
| 1:36.0 | commenting, no, we won't shoot it down and he didn't mention this time. But |
| 1:40.8 | this will be a continuing problem because there's a lot of pieces to put up |
| 1:44.8 | and to lower orbit to build that space station. Joining us now is someone who's |
| 1:49.7 | commented on these unusual protocols. Jonathan McDowell, he's an astrophysicist |
| 1:55.4 | at Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Jonathan, a very good evening to |
| 2:00.2 | you and thank you for this. You have commented in several places I'm reading |
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