The Empire Strikes Back

SLS defenders are starting to sound desperate.

Note that there’s very little support in comments.

7 thoughts on “The Empire Strikes Back”

I knew where that link was going before I clicked it. Read that felgercarb this AM.

First, Congress can legally protect the Space Launch System — the only rocket able to send astronauts to the moon in one launch

Stopped reading after this. No time for lies.
Send to orbit around the moon, maybe. Not tried yet….

Using SLS as the sole (or even primary) method for getting astronauts to the Lunar surface isn’t much different from Ralph Kramden’s AFAICT.

What a Tuul. Space News ought to be ashamed.

Denigrating actual innovation and success and attempting to valorize corruption and failure – another typical day on the progressive plantation.

Good lord that thing is an embarrassment. I see Richard Malcom is enjoying himself in comments, good.

This reality makes it ludicrous to suggest, as Trump space advisor Gene Autry has done, that NASA simply contract out a human Mars mission to SpaceX. To put it bluntly, the company has not demonstrated the technical competence required to execute even less demanding missions.

Maybe Mr. Peter should bone up on the definition of “blunt”.
Perusing his substack I see he chimed in on Oct 28th with:
No need to split hairs—Trump’s a fascist.
Hey it only took him 10 days after Applebaum’s Atlantic groundbreaker to catch up!