If SLS/Orion is a spaceship to nowhere, how come tens of thousands of people can ride that puppy all the way to their retirement?
Ah yes, the retirement overpass. Except this time it’s the retirement overpass to the sky.
I expected him to be better informed than that. Powerpoint slides are one thing. The actual hardware is quite another. SLS tries to do an omelet without the eggs i.e. a launch system without viable engines. That is something you come to expect from 3rd world space programs but not the US space program.
Even if they wasted all the money developing the engines and launch system they wouldn’t have any money left to design the payloads. That’s how unviable the whole idea is. The technological concepts behind cislunar exploration need to be completely thought over.
And one notes that the NASA budget that came out last week has two completely blank tables relating to future costing of SLS. They will be filled in, it is said, in early April when Key Decision Point C is finalized. KDP-C is already late by at least three months and I will be somewhat surprised if they can do one for SLS for real at all. We’ll see, but I think we may be close to the time when it becomes clear that the wheels are coming off.
If SLS/Orion is a spaceship to nowhere, how come tens of thousands of people can ride that puppy all the way to their retirement?
Ah yes, the retirement overpass. Except this time it’s the retirement overpass to the sky.
I expected him to be better informed than that. Powerpoint slides are one thing. The actual hardware is quite another. SLS tries to do an omelet without the eggs i.e. a launch system without viable engines. That is something you come to expect from 3rd world space programs but not the US space program.
Even if they wasted all the money developing the engines and launch system they wouldn’t have any money left to design the payloads. That’s how unviable the whole idea is. The technological concepts behind cislunar exploration need to be completely thought over.
And one notes that the NASA budget that came out last week has two completely blank tables relating to future costing of SLS. They will be filled in, it is said, in early April when Key Decision Point C is finalized. KDP-C is already late by at least three months and I will be somewhat surprised if they can do one for SLS for real at all. We’ll see, but I think we may be close to the time when it becomes clear that the wheels are coming off.
Renamed: Disappointment Mars.