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To: BenLurkin

After 53 years they can only muster 15% more thrust than the Saturn 5???


3 posted on 01/17/2022 3:52:38 PM PST by jack308
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To: jack308

Starship has for then double the thrust of a saturn 5. And the first test flight is in 6 weeks


6 posted on 01/17/2022 5:21:30 PM PST by Raymann
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To: jack308

I read somewhere a company couldn’t duplicate the old F1 engines on the Saturn V but they offered and improved version which was smaller, easier to produce and had a substantial increase in thrust and of course NASA rejected it. They had government contractors to pay billions in over runs and for the SLS to be delivered decades late.

If the SLS flies they may can orbit the moon like Apollo 8, but they have no lander or even space suits ready for EVA’s. NASA has been in a death spiral since the Skylab program ended. NASA=government jobs program for bureaucrats.


7 posted on 01/17/2022 6:21:38 PM PST by sarge83
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To: jack308

Science in the U.S. shut down in the 1970’s and has never recovered...
Engineering, alone, cannot do the job...


10 posted on 01/17/2022 7:44:06 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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