Space Exploration

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Heads up if you live in Florida & Southeast Georgia in the early morning hours.

 

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I fully expect this rocket to blow up shortly after takeoff. Not that I wish for that to happen, but Boeing seems to be lost in a sea of cost overruns and failures with this project, and I get no sense that they have a clue about what they're doing. I read an article just today that hurricane Nicole tore a strip of Home Depot caulking off of the rocket, and they weren't sure if it was safe to launch. If a cat 1 hurricane can tear caulking off of a rocket, what do they think will happen on its way to space when it's travelling over the speed of sound shortly after takeoff.

 

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[CagleMtnVol]

I fully expect this rocket to blow up shortly after takeoff. Not that I wish for that to happen, but Boeing seems to be lost in a sea of cost overruns and failures with this project, and I get no sense that they have a clue about what they're doing. I read an article just today that hurricane Nicole tore a strip of Home Depot caulking off of the rocket, and they weren't sure if it was safe to launch. If a cat 1 hurricane can tear caulking off of a rocket, what do they think will happen on its way to space when it's travelling over the speed of sound shortly after takeoff.

I hope you are wrong.

 

[VolStrom]

I hope you are wrong.

I do too, but I have a brother that retired from NASA and said that they are so overrun with bureaucrats that they can't get out of their own way. It's not the same NASA that sent men to the moon over 50 years ago. I just see failure after failure with NASA, they couldn't even get to the space station without Russia until SpaceX came along.

 

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[Grand Vol]

Wow!!

The fact that camera was shaking that far away from a brief test fire tells you a lot about the power in those engines.

 

[Grand Vol]

I fully expect this rocket to blow up shortly after takeoff. Not that I wish for that to happen, but Boeing seems to be lost in a sea of cost overruns and failures with this project, and I get no sense that they have a clue about what they're doing. I read an article just today that hurricane Nicole tore a strip of Home Depot caulking off of the rocket, and they weren't sure if it was safe to launch. If a cat 1 hurricane can tear caulking off of a rocket, what do they think will happen on its way to space when it's travelling over the speed of sound shortly after takeoff.

Like Cagle, I hope you are wrong as well. Boeing has been fairly inefficient these days in the space game. Lucky thing is, none of the tech (other than computers and programming) is new or untested. The SRBs are built on STS tech as are the RS-25 engines that are extremely proven. The upper stage in the beginning is basically a reworked Delta IV rocket, again, a reliable and proven system with an RL10 engine that's been used for 50+ years.

Really, the only thing that should go wrong is the software as the hardware generally is mature and proven. But... as we saw with Starliner, the software could pose a serious problem.

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

You got to be kidding. Launch in jeopardy because of a Ethernet connection.

 

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Live from NASA for anyone that wants to watch.
Live Coverage of NASA's Artemis I Mission to the Moon

 

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NASA YOUTUBE LIVE

 

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Go for launch T-8:00 minutes

 

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