Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 221 66.0%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.2%

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

    Votes: 73 21.8%
  • Total voters
    335
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It's certainly best to make sure everything is 100% go. I bet they take the time to go back over everything again just to be sure.

You know there was some Texas good ol boy out there holding a forging hammer and duct tape saying "I can fix it, boss".
 
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Grand Vol said:
It's certainly best to make sure everything is 100% go. I bet they take the time to go back over everything again just to be sure.

You know there was some Texas good ol boy out there holding a forging hammer and duct tape saying "I can fix it, boss".
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"Hold my beer. I can fix it, boss"

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Grand Vol said:
It's certainly best to make sure everything is 100% go. I bet they take the time to go back over everything again just to be sure.

You know there was some Texas good ol boy out there holding a forging hammer and duct tape saying "I can fix it, boss".
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During Starship test flights a couple of years ago, the story is that SpaceX actually sent a couple of guys in a pickup truck back to the pad to hit a stuck valve with a hammer. Unfortunately Full Starship stack is much more complicated and huge. Would probably have to send them up on one of those 200 foot cherry pickets to even reach the depress valve on booster 7. Plus they evacuated a whole lot further for this thing. The danger factor of that much explosive propellant is crazy
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Plus they evacuated a whole lot further for this thing. The danger factor of that much explosive propellant is crazy
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Yeah, that's one of the reasons I stopped watching Angry Astronaut. He keep going on about the Soviet N-1 explosion and comparing it to the Starship stack.

Pretty sure SpaceX is just a bit more safety minded than the Soviets...
 
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Grand Vol said:
Yeah, that's one of the reasons I stopped watching Angry Astronaut. He keep going on about the Soviet N-1 explosion and comparing it to the Starship stack.

Pretty sure SpaceX is just a bit more safety minded than the Soviets...
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I agree; with the caveats that 1) like the N1, Starship booster has extremely complex plumbing and control needed for the 33 engines producing many potential points of failure and 2) like the N-1 (and the Saturn V for that matter), the insane volume of highly reactive propellants involved means that any failure on or near the ground will obliterate the entire Lauch infrastructure.
But yeah, I think Musk‘s team has been much much more deliberate and careful in their launch preparations and testing. I think Starship will be highly successful and a quantum leap in rocket technology (especially reusability). But I would not be surprised by some spectacular stumbles along the way.
But we definitely shouldn’t see anything like the Soviets had with the Nedelin Catastrophe
Nedelin catastrophe - Wikipedia
 
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SpaceX is targeting as soon as Thursday, April 20 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas. The 62 minute launch window opens at 8:28 a.m. CT and closes at 9:30 a.m. CT.

 
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Last minute pad activities appear to be wrapping up at Boca Chica. Launch attempt expected shortly after sunrise tomorrow
 
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