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Anything this country that it accomplishes in the future will have to be able to be done in 4 to 8 years or it's not going anywhere.
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Looks like Biden is going to choose Bill Nelson to lead NASA....
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Quoted: And you just proved you dont know shit about the current program. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: American exceptionalism is commercial space craft. Not nationalist programs like NASA. There is nothing exceptional about NASA literally wasting billions and billions of dollars. It's a national disgrace. Also worth noting that more money is spent to keep ISS flying than the development costs of SLS, let that sink in. |
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Quoted: WTF is wrong with people who think space exploration is a waste of money? Its probably the BEST INVESTMENT in the future of humanity. There's a whole frikkin' universe out there. It doesn't end at this planet's surface. If we stay on this planet, we're stuck with finite resources. If we get off this planet there are infinite resources. Why is that so hard to understand??? View Quote It was a belief that got going in the sixties. That all that money would be better spent on the homeless. Like its a binary proposition. Space travel means homelessness and that getting rid of space exploration would be a panacea for homelessness. The belief fermented throughout the seventies. Becoming a religion for some people. Now it is a widespread belief and as bad as it is in this country. It's worse in other countries. I wouldn't be too shocked if Rocket Lab's facilities in New Zealand get invaded and looted by an angry mob stirred up by left wing activists in that country. The joke being that investing in space could be the ultimate treatment for poverty on this planet. Lunar colonization, asteroid mining and power satellites would utterly transform the global economy. Ushering in an age of previously unimaginable abundance. But the powers that be want Neo-Feudalism. You can't have neo-feudalism if humanity is expanding out into the universe with abundant cheap solar energy. |
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Quoted: SN11 exists and the first Super Heavy Boosters are being stacked. Barring government stupidity and/or hordes of angry heavily armed stupid poor people. Super heavy will exist soon enough. View Quote I hope you can see through your SpaceX pride the differences between SN11 and a dragon capsule, let alone Orion. SpaceX is moving forward, but they are still a good ways out from a ready to launch people platform. They still dont have a launch pad for this rocket, its in work. SLS has all the pieces ready to go, with follow on mods in work to meet the program goals. |
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Quoted: I hope you can see through your SpaceX pride the differences between SN11 and a dragon capsule, let alone Orion. SpaceX is moving forward, but they are still a good ways out from a ready to launch people platform. They still dont have a launch pad for this rocket, its in work. SLS has all the pieces ready to go, with follow on mods in work to meet the program goals. View Quote All the pieces, yes. Ready to go? As for meeting the program goals. I'll believe it when I see it. |
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ETA: Just pushed back to |
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NSF is live
SLS Green Run Hot Fire Test #2 and Super Heavy Booster Stacking |
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Quoted: Announcers seem unconcerned also. Seems to be a good test so far. View Quote With the ship sitting static airflow around it creates a low pressure in the center area which sucks up heat and as we saw the fire there. Shuttle ET would burn in flight, this thing sitting still was even worse for cooling air there. |
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FULL Blast no issue. Cheering in the control room! Woot woot.
Broken clock may in fact be right twice a day. |
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NASA Live
NEXT LIVE EVENTS March 18, Thursday TBD, approximately 7 p.m. EDT — Press conference following Green Run Hot Fire Test https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive |
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I can't help but feel that the data from this test firing is going to be more valuable than SLS.
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View Quote That's pretty cool, I've never seen that view of it. |
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Quoted: All the pieces, yes. Ready to go? As for meeting the program goals. I'll believe it when I see it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I hope you can see through your SpaceX pride the differences between SN11 and a dragon capsule, let alone Orion. SpaceX is moving forward, but they are still a good ways out from a ready to launch people platform. They still dont have a launch pad for this rocket, its in work. SLS has all the pieces ready to go, with follow on mods in work to meet the program goals. All the pieces, yes. Ready to go? As for meeting the program goals. I'll believe it when I see it. What is left for the pieces to be ready to go? |
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Quoted: There are more resources up there than down here. Whoever controls space will be the world's superpower View Quote Yep. We are at a point strategically similar to the first deep draft warships capable of sustained ocean voyages with mathematical precision. We haven't even begun to explore the idea of astro-strategics. |
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Quoted: Yep. We are at a point strategically similar to the first deep draft warships capable of sustained ocean voyages with mathematical precision. We haven't even begun to explore the idea of astro-strategics. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: There are more resources up there than down here. Whoever controls space will be the world's superpower Yep. We are at a point strategically similar to the first deep draft warships capable of sustained ocean voyages with mathematical precision. We haven't even begun to explore the idea of astro-strategics. Whether people hate Trump or love Trump, I hope that generations from now, the creation of Space Force as a separate branch will be seen as a smart and forward-looking act. |
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I thought that was so neat, I hassled my wife (who loves space stuff) to come and see. She thought it was neat. |
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Looked perfect to me and NASA tentatively graded the test an A plus. We should be launching around the moon before years end! Literally is nothing that will stop or hold up Artemis1 at this point.
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NASA is old bored news.
Reminds me of half of GD who is now old and overweight still claiming they can run a 2 mi in 14:00. |
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Quoted: What is left for the pieces to be ready to go? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I hope you can see through your SpaceX pride the differences between SN11 and a dragon capsule, let alone Orion. SpaceX is moving forward, but they are still a good ways out from a ready to launch people platform. They still dont have a launch pad for this rocket, its in work. SLS has all the pieces ready to go, with follow on mods in work to meet the program goals. All the pieces, yes. Ready to go? As for meeting the program goals. I'll believe it when I see it. What is left for the pieces to be ready to go? An assembled stack. Kharn |
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I am excited at all the space development. I am old enough to remember the last Apollo mission on tv, watching Challenger blow while I was in the Air Force. I just wish I was young enough to leave this rock. I grew up reading science fiction and watching 2001 Space Odyssey. I hope Biden doesn't cut budgets to save his communist agenda and welfare state.
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Quoted: I hope you can see through your SpaceX pride the differences between SN11 and a dragon capsule, let alone Orion. SpaceX is moving forward, but they are still a good ways out from a ready to launch people platform. They still dont have a launch pad for this rocket, its in work. SLS has all the pieces ready to go, with follow on mods in work to meet the program goals. View Quote How many people have ridden to the ISS in SLS/Orion? |
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