He’s supposedly speaking at dinner tonight here in Alamagordo, so if you hear about an explosion in southern New Mexico bigger than Trinity, it was probably a total mass/energy conversion with me.
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He’s supposedly speaking at dinner tonight here in Alamagordo, so if you hear about an explosion in southern New Mexico bigger than Trinity, it was probably a total mass/energy conversion with me.
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I saw he was on the program in a couple of places. Seems odd that he would show up there at all. His hyper-expensive, all throwaway hardware Constellation program was the antithesis of the DC-X paradigm of low cost development and fully reusable hardware.
Yet Griffin got his over-budget pork rocket canceled faster and earlier than Bolden’s over-budget pork rocket, even though the two systems seem to be almost exactly the same, other than the SLS using four SSME’s instead of five. Sure, using God’s own bottle rocket to launch an Orion was a sketchy idea, but Griffin brought his projects forward to ignominious cancellation much faster than Bolden has.
I know he is President of the AIAA but it must sure feel awkward to the Apollo on steroids man to be talking at a reusable VTVL party. Can you throw tomatoes at the man or is that bad form?
If I could go I would probably be most interested in the RL-10 main engines talks. That engine sort of fascinates me.
Don’t be so hard on Mike; he was the 1st person I heard seriously advocating for a Lagrange point fuel depot. I’m sure if he had his druthers he’d have built a pebble bed nuclear rocket instead, but he still had well thought out reasons to pursue Apollo+ as a lunar return method:
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep533/FALL2001/lecture29.pdf