[ealgeone]

at this point why not just rebuild the Saturn V engines??

[brownsfan]

Pfffft, time to move back to NASA’s core mission, muslim outreach.

Won’t be much money to spend on something that can enrich humanity when there are so many social programs to fund.

[allendale]

Forget NASA. Remember Obama’s appointee to head it. He said the most important mission of NASA was outreach to Muslims. Any real progress in space exploration will depend on the development of nuclear propulsion for travel within this solar system. The Biden crazies will never allow it. Musk and Space X would develop it but again the Biden crazies would stop them. A new dark age is dawning.

[fatman6502002]

NASA should get out of the rocket building business all together. NASA should be restructured as a simple regulatory agency providing safety assurances to the rocket launching industry. Let private businesses like SpaceX build the rockets, launch them, and develope the missions needed for them.

[Pollard]

BLOAT Boeing has been tied to fedgov for so long, it’s become a lot like fedgov

[Dahoser]

The SLS core stage, built by Boeing

Look no further, lads.

[moovova]

67 seconds?

The good news...if the moon rocket engine cuts off after 67 seconds, the rocket will barely be off the ground and the crash will be nearby.

The bad news...with the rocket still full of fuel, the crash fire will be so intense, the crash remains will just be one massive puddle of melted metal.

[fidelis]

My Dad (may he rest in peace) and I both worked at the Rocketdyne plant in Canoga Park, California, that built the Saturn V and the original Space Shuttle main engines. It was a point of pride at Rocketdyne that our engines always performed flawlessly. Rocketdyne was bought-out by General Dynamics, then Aerojet, then Boeing and the old rocket factory was torn down for a condominium complex. That’s progress for you.

[tennmountainman]

More delays. A lot more tax payer dollars.

[ctdonath2]

Great comparison of SLS vs. Starship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA69Oh3_obY
Key points: https://i2.wp.com/everydayastronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
Mass to the Moon:
- Saturn 5: 49 metric tonnes
- SLS: 43 metric tonnes
- Starship: 156 metric tonnes
Price per launch:
- Saturn 5: 1.2B dollars
- SLS: 0.875B dollars
- Staraship: 0.1B dollars worse case scenario (Elon aims at 0.002B$)
Price per kg:
- Saturn 5: 25 600 $
- SLS: 20 000 $
- Starhip: 2 000 $ worse case scenario (Elon aims at 40$)

[ASOC]

How many years (or decades) late AND HOW MANY BILLIONS OVERBUDGET?

NASA is a dottering bureaucracy

[markman46]

It was a enging controller on engine 4 that stuff down that engine and ended the test.

[jmcenanly]

By the time this is ready to carry astronauts, the SpaceX Starship will probably have flown to low Earth orbit with a crew and will be preparing for a Lunar Flyby