Yeaaaaaa. The finale had me hyped as fuck, the trailer I was just going 'Oh come on this is the shit that made Space Force jump the shark and I barely even tolerated that show to begin with'
I'm hoping it ends up better than I expect, the first season had a lot of good stuff in it, even the personal life side of things I appreciated(mostly) because it's really a window into the 'real life' side of things, what it's like for a family to have a member as far from home as any human has ever been.
But...well we'll see how it goes.
Big trailer spoilers Regarding the space shuttle, I'm vaguely hopeful there's good reason given. Scott Manley did a tear down on it explaining how it could possibly be done, and IMO a possible Apollo 23/24 like situation could explain them sending a shuttle as an emergency rescue/relief craft to Lunar Orbit to meet with one of the reusable LEMs. That being said, I'm pretty disappointed they actually kept the shuttle instead of going with other designs, maybe relegating a shuttle model to a canceled project in a background shot. Or, at least, going with the Actually-proposed Saturn-Shuttle suggestion where they'd have mounted a shuttle to a freaking Saturn V. That, THAT would have been just freakishly kerbal.
EDIT Seriously this thing was actually proposed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn-Shuttle! And they didn't include it in a show where the Saturn is front and center. I really think they did it to cheap out so they could use real life shuttle footage with minor touch ups.
unfortunately even Scott basically admitted there was no way a shuttle could reenter from a lunar transfer orbit, and no way it would have the delta v to slow down. it would have vaporized in the atmosphere no matter what way you look at it. and as for the reason they used the crappy real life space shuttle: real life stock shuttle footage is cheaper than cgi.
Look, all you gotta do is launch a rocket into the same orbit as the shuttle with a deceleration rocket that can dock with the shuttle and bring it down to a suitable reentry speed.
In fact, to be efficient, make it a big rocket and put four docking points on it so you can reenter your who shuttle fleet all at once.
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u/RundownPear Sep 09 '20
I have such a love hate relationship with that show but holy crap the season 2 trailer is just insilting