TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
That pretty much describes the history of the Senate Launch System.
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There's no amount of emojis that can accurately describe how much I love this right now.
US should spent more bringing up the technical know-how of the people to the level it use to be , rather than spending on stirring shit all over the place and ignoring a great decline of intelligence of once the "greatest country on earth" where everybody wants to migrate to.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I saw on the news that it's $6 billion dollars every launch of an Artemis rocket and NASA hopes further launches will reduce the price.
Partial success? Vehicle worked as designed
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Which is unlikely. The SLS system is unbelievably expensive due to the fact it was built to a specific mission, based on a mandated specification with mandated parts in a non bid process to a mission that at this point NASA doesn’t actually have the hardware for.
it’s a strange set of circular logic. Congress mandated SLS from the aborted Constellation program, Congress has demanded it fly, congress hasn’t actually pushed for a wider program and NASA has to obay congress. So Congress designed a rocket, NASA built it but Congress doesn’t seem to have more intention for it and NASA has to justify it. The more are built the more are supported problem is Congress is so wobbly on SLS and Artemus that establishing such a line is doubtful. Farther the system is reliant on a lot of parts that were left overs from the Shuttle and those are only a set number that if SLS did launch more would need replacement equipment that isn’t made anymore. Due to the closure of the Shutte program. So they would basically have to redesign SLS again… This is part of why I question the viability of SLS vs a commercial product like Starship super heavy.
Back in the 1960s there was the hard drive to do it it Congress showed an unwillingness to take it more than “flags and foot prints.” Hence the cancellation of Apollo missions beyond 17. For Five missions American Astronauts put on a show. A scripted on location
verity show with little to show for it as NASA hadn’t been told to do more than a stunt. It wasn’t until Apollo 17 that science was brought in. Congress wanted it done with. The last Saturn Rockets were then modified for Docking with Soyuz and Skylab
Yes Canton_Pop, Neil Did WALK on the Moon! Your little video would have been so much better had they tried to pull that with Buzz Aldrin much less the gentleman much more the boxer. If you don’t believe the US then, Believe the Russians because they reported on Apollo to. The Russians had a robotic lander coming down at the same time Luna 15 as such they were listening. USSR had a less capable but similar radio receiver networks. They could tell if the signal from the moon was Extra terrestrial or terrestrial on origin. If the US had Staged a landing the Soviets would have had the Biggest Propaganda coup of the millennium!! They wouldn’t have let the US live it down. We would today have Putin reminding the world of the Apollo Farce. It was the Cold War the Soviets wanted to compete and win against the Americans at everything and Visa Versa.
The fact is though Soviet papers pushed it from the front page, They begrudgingly acknowledged it. It’s only in modern Russia where they question it.