Posted on 03/01/2018 3:06:16 PM PST by Voption
".... NASA has decided to forgo construction of a second mobile launcher for its Space Launch System (SLS). Instead, they will modify the one they have....The first mobile launcher was built and modified for an estimated $300 to $500 million. NASA obviously has decided that the politics & cost is too great, as would be the political embarrassment of admitting they spent about a half a billion for a launcher they will only use once...What this does however is push back the first manned SLS/Orion launch. At present, the first unmanned mission is likely to go in June 2020... If it takes 33 months after that launch to reconfigure the launcher for the first manned mission, that manned mission cannot occur any sooner than April 2023...."
(Excerpt) Read more at behindtheblack.com ...
If space is receding, we had better launch soon.
That would be addressed here:
“Hubble finds new figure for the expansion-rate of the Universe”
[73 kilometers per second per megaparsec]
I wonder how much of that money went into liberal Democrat politician pockets like Hillary Clinton through deceptive under the table dealings. It is hard to imagine all that money going for one rocket.
There is something deliberately wrong with our space program.
They are trying to pass it off as stupidity. Its not. This is being done on purpose.
Powers that be do not want us up there. Don’t know why but they don’t.
Anything from “aliens” to very likely the insane lust of controlling people.
“the best we can hope for is a single manned mission”
NASA says it will be used for decades by various entities?
At least when they land on Mars they can stay at the Bigelow hotel in Elon Musk city. If they have a reservation.
This is being done on purpose.
Powers that be do not want us up there. Don’t know why but they don’t.
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Maybe the same reason that the Apollo program was canceled, the real reason not the publicly announced one. Some very odd things occurred during the lunar mission and to the astronauts themselves - they cannot speak about how it felt to be on the moon, just the facts - for one.
Maybe government is carrying the guilt of wasting so much money on a lie. That lie being that humans could not survive a trip outside of Earths orbit in the primitive “capsules” of the 1960’s and 70’s. If it is so easy, why have no other nations done it? Supposedly Tesla can launch and land booster rockets in a vertical position, while delivering a deep space probe, but the USA cannot even go to ISS without the help of the Ruskies. It is all very strange.....remember I said MAYBE....
How long did it take us to get to the moon? Nine years?
And how long did it take the Saturn V to reach the launch pad? I’m talking about from inception to the launch of Apollo 4.
The question is, what percentage of the budget was NASA given in 1960s dollars to launch Apollo? Try north of 10%.
Presently, NASA is on a fixed 0.5% portion of the Federal budget.
Lots of other misinformation in that article.
The program was announced in 1962 and the first flight was in 1967. So, about 5 years.
But that was with self-trained Germans running the program. It takes longer if you use American college trained boys.
And I should have added the other factors which make it take longer.
1) Computers instead of slide rules
2) Affirmative Action instead of merit.
3) Muslim outreach instead of manned launch systems
4) Global warming fake “science” instead of human space exploration
Beam me up, Scotty.
Hog wash.
The first mobile launcher was built and modified for an estimated $300 to $500 million.
If memory serves, $500 million was the amount Musk and some venture cap investors spent to develop the working Falcon 9 launch system from scratch. Thanks Voption.
If memory serves, $500 million was the amount Musk and some venture cap investors spent to develop the working Falcon 9 launch system from scratch. Thanks Voption.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the figure.
Musk also said in a recent interview they spent about $500 million on Falcon Heavy development, and he didn’t seem proud about it. Way too much.
As another comparison, Boeing is estimated to have spent $32 billion on 787 development.
Development of the F1 engines was begun in 1955 for a DoD requirement (deliver the Ed Teller H-bomb design to targets in Asia), picked up by NACA/NASA, and first test-fired in 1959 (4 years), cavitation problems were solved by 1961, in time for JFK in his frustration with apparent Soviet space leadership to set the US the goal of a man on the Moon. The first operational engine was delivered in 1963. The Saturn V first launched late in 1967. The F1 engines never had a failure through its last flight in 1973. [summary available on wikiped']
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