(above) NASA Spokesman Petit, explaining just how incompetent NASA has been. Most believed him without lifting an eyelid.
Posted on 02/18/2022 8:45:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv
"It will obsolesce all existing launch systems".
Elon Musk recently provided the first big update on SpaceX's Mars-bound rocket, Starship, and its competitors are watching on with "a mix of awe and horror", according to a report from Politico.
At his latest Starship presentation, SpaceX CEO Musk highlighted the fact that Starship will be reusable over and over again at a fraction of the cost of previous rockets. It's a development that threatens to leave NASA and other competitors in its wake as it launches to the proverbial stratosphere...
While it has long been known that Starship would be reusable, the advanced capabilities reportedly have other space organizations, including NASA, worried that their own in-development rocket projects will be rendered obsolete...
Starship is designed to be the first reusable spacecraft that will be able to take crew and cargo to the Moon and Mars before returning to Earth. By contrast, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) for its Artemis Moon landing missions has gone billions of dollars over original budget estimations and is years behind schedule. What's more, NASA estimates that an SLS mission will cost approximately $2 billion per launch, while Musk announced in his latest presentation that a Starship mission could cost a comparatively low $1 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
Soon........
We’ll see
Elon Musk: Say what you want about him but I believe he is a true genius on a par with Edison.
If it’s a s good as they say it is, I would expect some sabotage from NASA.................
NASA Officials Reportedly Horrified That SpaceX’s Starship May Succeed:
https://futurism.com/nasa-horrified-spacex
FAA pushes back review of SpaceX’s Starship to March 28:
Headline Of The Year!
Probably, but Joe Biden would do something to Elon so the Chinese could steal it
If NASA had took the SLS money and put it into their command module and lander and used the Falcon 9 they could have already been back to the moon. NASA is a government jobs program at this point. They are regulating and paper working themselves into oblivion.
(above) NASA Spokesman Petit, explaining just how incompetent NASA has been. Most believed him without lifting an eyelid.
NASA has two types of projects:
* Ones to do science
* Ones to keep congress happy
A $20 billion project like SLS creates a lot of funds for Senators to send to their favorite contractors. The Senators are happy and they give NASA $700 million to do a mission to Pluto.
See post 6—if NASA can’t fix their space-suit problem “going back to the moon” is not going to happen.
That’s what my old boss used to call “no sense of urgency”.
Considering most of what those congressmen are giving those corporations, the Constitution gives them no power to actually... give...
I’m ok with them losing out. It is long over-due...
Just use the old suits, they worked.
Good post—NASA is the “dog ate my homework” agency.
Their expertise is making excuses for failure.
Yes... but 90% of your ROI on mining those resources will come in off-Terra utilization. There isn’t a need to drop them back down the gravity well.
At his latest Starship presentation, SpaceX CEO Musk highlighted the fact that Starship will be reusable over and over again at a fraction of the cost of previous rockets.
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Tower is every bit as complex as the booster or the Starship. The tower will catch the booster, and then capture the Starship, mate the two after inspection and then refuel, and relaunch. The entire process should take about 3 hours from initial launch to next launch; there will be multiple launches per day. The higher the rate, the lower the cost of the launch price.
Basically, the Starship can take cargo or people from any one point on Earth to any other point in 1 hour.
Starship will mate with tanker in orbit side to side or vertically, if you will and “refill, not refuel”, said Elon.
That’s why NASA is Sh*tting The Bed”
lol
Argh, no. You keep that government teat pipeline WIDE open, because if you even ATTEMPT to CLOSE it, every last one of these groups and their bought-and-paid-for Congressional-delegations will bind together to take down Musk and SpaceX. I absolutely guarantee it.
Marshall, Stennis, Promontory, Cudahy, all of the avionics subsytem builders.
Northrop Grummn, Aerojet, Dynetics, ATK, Ball, Pratt (Rocketdyne), ATA, and Boeing.
As long as they get their grift, Musk gets free reign to get Starship into orbit around the Moon and then around Mars.
The SLS booby prize is who knows, maybe it can be used for emergencies. Or maybe take Democrats to the Sun.
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