[JBW1949]

53 years ago, we landed men on the moon...Today, we can’t even launch an unmanned vehicle...

[absalom01]

Starship will launch no later than the end of 2023, and there’s a good chance that it will fly this year.

That’s the game changer.

SLS is the “traditional aerospace” approach. It’ll fly, but at a cost that makes Artemis unsustainable.

[Alas Babylon!]

Both the USA and the USSR, now Russia, have had plenty of disasters over the years, from the late 1950s, through loss of life for cosmonauts and astronauts, explosions on the ground resulting in the deaths of ground personal, and explosions in the air, in space itself and upon reentry.

I would rather see us learn from these mistakes, and without any more loss of life. But frankly, that would be naïve on my part.

The problem with NASA is it is a government organization.

Once SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin—and other private companies like them—get their feet firmly in the door, NASA should step out of the way.

[BBB333]

“53 years ago, we landed men on the moon...Today, we can’t even launch an unmanned vehicle...”

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By ‘WE’ you mean NASA, right?

Space X has put at least 10 men into space in the last several years.

(This post is traveling to you via Starlink)

[sarge83]

What we have here is another Apollo 1 disaster in the making.

[CapnJack]

You would think at this point in the past 53 years we would have daily/hourly shuttles doing vertical take offs and rendezvousing with some massive orbital station by now.

But the "Great Society" was more important as well as other "social" interests.