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Karin Sturm

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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Especially as it is so easy in English. In German it can get much more difficult, we don't really have a word for crewed. Sometimes you can use astronautic versus robotic, but it does not always work.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Yep, I did not mention him because he was "only" acting...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bill Nelson as well, even if he never was an astronaut.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Some of the journalists really have no clue about the mission, otherwise they would not ask this kind of questions.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Maybe you should read the thread from @jthutt.bsky.social who actually works the mission and explains a lot of this in detail.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It's really annoying that you have to explain these things over and over again even to people who should know better!
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I heard something like this as well from a soon-to-be ESA flight controller 😉
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Remember they got rid of a big part of the Comms team at HQ last year, including Bob Jacobs who was in charge of setting up a lot of the visual stuff?
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wasn't there a problem with Range equipment as well?
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"So much" in highlighting his opinion as valid critisism - which it is not. For me it does not matter if it is done in five or twenty sentences. The guy is just no credible source at all.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Hale nuts - which says something. Now he is mainly attention seeking to sell his book. People actually working on the heatshield investigation already told him off a few times because in reality he has no access to the current data anymore and is just spreading BS to remain in the limelight.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I like this story, but why did you give Charlie Carmarda so much room in the other one? The guy has a personal beef with NASA after he was kind of sidelined in 2006 as nobody at JSC was able to work with him anymore. After his flight on STS-114 he completely ticked out emotionally, drove even Wayne
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Fingers crossed! 🤞🤞🤞
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Congrats - enjoy!
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
You can do a lot of things in theory, but you very often run the risk of creating more new problems than you solved.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Then you would sacrify all the science that was meant to be done on orbit, BO lander for sure does not have capacity for 4, additional risk for docking in case of for example a software failure on Orion, or in general a problem during the stay in LLO which a human on board might be able to solve.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Lot of ideologic opinion and buzzwords without any knowledge about the real historic background of the reality we have to deal with nowadays...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
corrections which need a lot of extra fuel which limits your time in LLO even more...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I wish you had access to some internal papers I read about Gateway, its importance, details about its implications etc. Might open your eyes a bit. There is so much more to it than reported in most of the media By the way knowledge about MASCONs doesn't prevent us from the need of constant course
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Orion has a free flight time of 21 days. So you can't run a long time Mission without Gateway because you won't habe any abort option at all. And by the way LLO can cause a lot of other problems at all, just think about MASCONs...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The nuclear spacecraft being ready for 28 is nearly impossible, with "pausing" Gateway we will lose so much important scientific data and at least for the nearer future the chance to run long-term Moon missions safely. What a great plan!
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
not thougt through to the end at all. A lot of PR and 98 percent of the space community, who mostly have never spoken to any mission planner, scientist, engineer or real expert on human spaceflight, fall for it. And I include most of the popular YouTubers, who in reality don't have a clue either.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We don't even know if refuelling Starship in LEO will work. We would need a similar infrastructure around the Moon for this. Where should a new service modell come from in three or four years from scratch? What about the extra costs? For me all this looks nice in presentations and renders, but is
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is exactly my point - I would not feel comfortable at all leaving astronauts on the surface without the chance of returning home in case of an emergency. At least not in the rather early stages of the program with the base not completely ready and kind of autarc for a longer time.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If you talk to people really working on it does not make sense at all and a lot of the claims they make, for example about timeline/delays are a ton of BS. Also nobody seems to think about how to do long-term safe Moon missions without Gateway. Orion has a limited free-flight time of 21 days...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What will happen when they realize that a) the Mars spacecraft will never be ready for the 2028 window and b) safe long-term Moon missions are not possible without Gateway due to the limited free-flight time of Orion. The whole plan is absolutely ridiculous if you ask people really working on it.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
really need to get there. Talking to some of them on a very regular basis, I can tell you: It is much more complicated than many people who have not looked into the fine details imagine. Quite often one question answered rises two new ones...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
step the real experts where brought in, who also learned a lot over the years, also from ISS experience, what could be learned from there, what not, what kind of problems arouse... And they now have a realistic view on the challenges ahead - and how far we are still away from solutions and what we
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If you would know how and by whom (top management) the first plans and models were created 10 to 15 years ago, you would realize that there was a lot of daydreaming going on without having a look at a lot of unconvieniant details and also a lot of lack of knowledge on different levels. Then step by
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
why I said the other, less political and more scientific "second line' of NASA is so important now.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I am not sure it needs partner approval if it does not affect a part of the timeline where the partner is not really involved (What I hear ESA is not very powerfull in this areas). But for sure there is one side at the moment trying to convince Congress to make short-sighted decisions. That's
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As Artemis lV is now replacing Artemis III in terms of mission and timing, I think it's obvious that Gateway can't be part of it - would never have been in the realistic timeline til 28. Would think that partners care less about flight numbers and graphics than about what is really happening later.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
good bipartisan access to Congress who already last year prevented a real disaster.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It was only meant to fly after the first landing - so sometime 29 earliest. So hopefully they keep it running in the background and if it then gets delayed a year or so more - so be it... By the way - NASA itself can't cancel it. Congress has to. And I hope for the "second line" NASA people with
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
And I also decline that it was not necessary for the Artemis architecture. If you think further than just landing and short term Moon missions, it was very important from the very beginning.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The international co-operation is part of it of course. And it was also helpful to have partners to contribute to the financing. I also agree that a cancellation would damage international relations. But my point is that the loss and damage for the future of human spaceflight would go much further.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You need the experience of the mixture of deep space radiation, zero G and very confined spaces over a long time for human and material science. Easiest and cheapest way to get via Gateway. And to keep people on the surface to build a base without a chance of a quick way out in an emergency?
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Well, I talked to many human scientists, medical doctors, psycologists, material scientists, mission planners - and they all emphasize the huge importance of Gateway. People who work for ages in human spaceflight. Do you really want to discredit their knowledge and experience?
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Orion has a free flight time limit of 21 days. 3.5 to the Moon, 3.5 back to Earth, 14 left. No chance of longer lasting Moon missions to build a base without Gateway. A distruction? Not to talk about Gateway as a necessary stepping stone to Mars. Without it, delay of minimum 10 years incoming .
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Not posting much currently. Just trying to save energy. But if this is a common problem, how can they make sure it does not re-appear?
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What do you think might have happened? After it worked fine during the WDRs?
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Most of them come originally from gymnastics, then move over. Some, especially the Chinese, who got picked out as possibly highly talented, never did any skiing before and had to learn this step by step first.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Schöner Text - und nach dem Botn-Sieg schon die zweite sehr emotionale Geschichte heute...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The problem is that none of these journalists seem to have any knowledge about the real background of these "experts", especially Charlie Camarda, and his beef with NASA for being sidelined as nobody at JSC was able to work with him after his flight, when he got emotionally out of control.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thanks!
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I was talking about the Mission Control sim video from JSC they released recently which was cut together obviously from sims over a long period. Sometimes it's "Orion", sometimes "Integrity", obviously after the capsule was named...
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I got confused when I listened to the sim coverage when they were talking about a USS2 burn - could not figure out what that was meant to be..
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Apart from Columbia not being able to be sent to the ISS at that point - didn't have a docking adapter.
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
2003
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Karin Sturm @karinspace.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Not really, he has a huge beef with NASA since he was sidelined there after his flight because he was so emotional it was impossible to work with him even for people like Wayne Hale. In reality he does not have access to the detailed data anymore, was told off by today's experts at many conferences.
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