the most expensive, left over tech, on earth.Temporary solution at best.
SLS is simply reusing the old STS engines... but this time they won't be recovered.
Rocketdyne isn't building them anymore, and there is not an unlimited supply.
I am seriously unimpressed with the way the whole SLS project has gone. I was excited for it 15 years ago... but I should have known that the bureaucracy at NASA would fuck it up.
So they'll only be able to run a few launches of the SLS without moving to a "Block 2" with a newer engine and thrust structure.
Constellation was on the right path. New booster, new engines.
Is it really sexist, if it's true?however i will say this.
it does make sense that the seat that takes the first woman to the moon, is the most expensive seat in all of history.
there's some serious irony right there, especially since it will be years late.
men at NASA are like, "what did you expect?"
endofmysexismpost.
I really like Everyday Astronaut. Tim is really sharp and explains things well.Scott is my go-to guy.
Honestly, 17b over the duration of this project is a drop in the bucket.Cool? Yep
Generated a lot of jobs and income? Yep
Worth the estimated $17 billion dollars spent? Nope
This new "space race" involving a number of private companies, India, and China is all about rare earth mining.I agree 100% on all the government waste. I also fail to see how sending people back to the moon does anything for our society other than to provide jobs. I realize a lot of advancements in technology were made during the 60's from the "space race", but I going "back" to the moon? Same thing with sending man to Mars. All the money that will be spent to what end. Just to say we sent someone to Mars? Think what could be accomplished in this country to end hunger and poverty with that kind of money. Sorry just don't see it.
assuming we can't cut the travel time to mars down by a fuck ton, it's not worth trying to do before setting up a moon base imo. the main reason being that the moon is much closer and easier to access. now, we can't terraform the moon as we "potentially" could mars, but it still makes us extinction level asteroid proof. t-rex would be jelly.I agree 100% on all the government waste. I also fail to see how sending people back to the moon does anything for our society other than to provide jobs. I realize a lot of advancements in technology were made during the 60's from the "space race", but I going "back" to the moon? Same thing with sending man to Mars. All the money that will be spent to what end. Just to say we sent someone to Mars? Think what could be accomplished in this country to end hunger and poverty with that kind of money. Sorry just don't see it.