Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 223 66.0%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.1%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 21.9%
  • Total voters
    338
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#4,486
Right in keeping with the SLS program plagued with delays, it has scrubbed again. There was a Hydrogen leak on the fuel line.
 
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#4,489
If something goes wrong and they can’t launch on Monday, we’ll have to wait a month for another launch attempt because of the position of the moon.
 
#4,491
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Matt2496 said:
Right in keeping with the SLS program plagued with delays, it has scrubbed again. There was a Hydrogen leak on the fuel line.
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Who built/designed this rocket? It has NASA and old school defense contractor written all over it, one delay after another.
 
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VolStrom said:
Who built/designed this rocket? It has NASA and old school defense contractor written all over it, one delay after another.
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<cough> <cough> Boeing <cough>

At least partially. They pieced out together from a variety of contractors. Most of which tend to get "delayed."

But... I will say this. You can partially blame Congress for this by making the contractors use existing lines of production for the Space Shuttle instead of going with a clean sheet design. Hence why the thing looks like it does. But at the end, it's still an expensive, non-reusable platform.
 
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Grand Vol said:
<cough> <cough> Boeing <cough>

At least partially. They pieced out together from a variety of contractors. Most of which tend to get "delayed."

But... I will say this. You can partially blame Congress for this by making the contractors use existing lines of production for the Space Shuttle instead of going with a clean sheet design. Hence why the thing looks like it does. But at the end, it's still an expensive, non-reusable platform.
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Can this thing really lift more than the Falcon 9 heavy rocket that SpaceX built and actually works? It seems to me, a two rocket launch and a meet up in space would be way better than this monstrosity that more than likely will blow up after launch.
 
#4,494
#4,494


Just another government F'up. NASA and the cabal known as Boeing and Lockheed needs to be fired, and they need to turn the space program over to SpaceX.
 
#4,498
#4,498
VolStrom said:
Can this thing really lift more than the Falcon 9 heavy rocket that SpaceX built and actually works? It seems to me, a two rocket launch and a meet up in space would be way better than this monstrosity that more than likely will blow up after launch.
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Yes, SLS will reportedly carry a payload capacity of 190,000 lbs (86 tons) up to low-Earth orbit (LEO), compared to 141,000 lbs (64 tons) for Falcon Heavy. Starship will reportedly be able to lift 220,000 lbs (100 tons)
 
#4,499
#4,499
Missed this somehow...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/31/nas...-contracts-for-5-more-astronaut-missions.html

NASA on Wednesday announced it has awarded five more astronaut missions to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with a contract worth an additional $1.4 billion to the company.
The extra flights fall under NASA’s Commercial Crew program, which delivers astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX is currently on its fourth operational human spaceflight for the agency.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft has been competing with Boeing and its Starliner capsule for contracts under Commercial Crew. While both companies have now been awarded nearly $5 billion to develop and launch their respective capsules, SpaceX has won 14 missions and Boeing has garnered six. The latter has yet to launch astronauts with Starliner.
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More on the above article. I forgot they were eventually planning to use the Vulcan rocket for the Starliner.

 
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