It does not make sense, to rescue an electronically geolocated pilot via its beacon, to land hundreds of special forces and four airplanes, 200 kms away from the pilot...The true will come out...slowly...
AWS flex used to be they did not tell you where the data centers are physically located, and availability zones are actually at least 50 to 100 miles apart, unlike Google and Azure where multi-AZ its just two firewalls in the same building...
Good times. Now your cloud provider selection matrix looks like:
- Number of THAAD batteries within intercept range
- Active defense agreements with NATO member states
- Licensed Ukrainian anti-drone EW systems per facility
- Iron Dome coverage overlap percentage
AWS Shield is going to mean a Patriot battery included...We went from cloud is just someone else's computer to cloud is just someone else's military base...
- Apollo had a significantly higher accepted risk. Apollo 1 or 13 would be untenable today.
- The percent of 13-year olds that made it into and through eight grade was significantly smaller in 1912. Your average poor farming kid did not go to eighth grade.
Apollo 10 was a dress rehearsal for the Moon landing, with the Lunar Module flying to within 9 miles of the lunar surface. including having the lunar module descent to within 15 kilometers of the lunar surface but the crew did not attempt a landing.
Artemis is testing a new heat shield for the first time, with humans on board, that has only been validated by computer models, and almost failed catastrophically in Artemis I.
The difference between then and now, is that now you have a commission of public servants and then you had Harvey Allen and Wernher von Braun.
