I found it interesting that NASA has scrubbed its plans to land on the moon in 2027 amid a series of struggles to launch the Artemis II spacecraft this month, after all this mission was done successfully 57 years ago or was it ?
A bit simplistic but:- When the Apollo missions took place the craft, once clear of the tower, was controlled on board and monitored from Earth stations, so the people on board had to know what they were doing to operate autonomously. Now, it seems, they are, or can be, controlled from Earth stations too which immediately more than quadruples the amount of digital (computer) checks that need to match exactly for a specific action to operate successfully. The people on board are no less skilled than those in the 60s but it seems that the technology no longer allows them to make independent decisions without corroboration from an algorithm, possibly developed by another algorithm (it used to be called Machine Learning but now it's known as AI). A computer driven flight control system is never wrong......until it is - Just ask Boeing (who allegedly also said "it was just a glitch")! Take 1 step forward, throw common sense ot of the window, and take 2 steps back = progress!
