NASA to re-animate Werner Von Braun in Moon bid
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday September 20, 2005 @09:29PM
from the Back-to-the-Past dept.
Matthew writes: In announcing their “Back to the Moon” Strategy for sending Americans back to the Moon a mere 50 years after the first time they did it, NASA has announced that rather than attempting to develop anything new, they would simply reanimate the remains of Werner Von Braun and ask him/it to help reconstitue the Atlas V heavy lift rocket.
“We don’t have the plans anymore. We, uh, ‘lost’ them once we decided to do the Space Shuttle, just in case some congressperson decided that rockets were cheaper than shuttles or something.”
“Anyhoo, we took a straw poll here at mission control, and it turns out not a damned one of us is a rocket scientist. Can you believe that? I was like, ‘Hey, who let all the engineers go?’—that was a laugh. But yeah, we have no friggin idea how to build a rocket. I really think everyone here thought that somebody else did it. I could have sworn that Bob down the hall was a Rocket Scientist, but nope—he’s just a chemist whose been doing project management for twenty years. Man, he can whip out a mean PowerPoint presentation though.”
“So we took a look at some of the other science we’ve been doing, and we realized that it would be a lot easier to just reanimate Werner Von Braun than it would be to reengineer the Saturn V. So we’re going to move on that front instead.”