I can’t help thinking of these guys every now and then, with their nifty ideas like ascending from the moon with the astronaut sitting on a rocket motor in his spacesuit with no spacecraft needed.
Planning fallacy may have occurred here but this sounds a lot like people who just didn’t appreciate the engineering difficulties involved. Orbital rendezvous is really tough. Some of the toughest parts of the Apollo and Gemini programs were trying to get that happen reliably. And if anything goes wrong, the astronaut only has their little space suit to protect them with whatever resources are on it before they can land again or attempt another rendezvous. This would be an extremely high risk method with a lot of engineering difficulties.
Planning fallacy may have occurred here but this sounds a lot like people who just didn’t appreciate the engineering difficulties involved. Orbital rendezvous is really tough. Some of the toughest parts of the Apollo and Gemini programs were trying to get that happen reliably. And if anything goes wrong, the astronaut only has their little space suit to protect them with whatever resources are on it before they can land again or attempt another rendezvous. This would be an extremely high risk method with a lot of engineering difficulties.