NASA is a leftist jobs program. If they want them back alive have SpaceX retrieve them in one of their craft. The Boeing machine is akin to doomed Apollo 1, it doesn’t ring true.
Why Does SpaceX Use 33 Engines While NASA Used Just 5?
The race to the moon is back on, but why does SpaceX’s Starship & super heavy booster need 33 engines when NASA’s Saturn V rocket, which went to the moon six times 55 years ago only needed five. We look at what has changed since then and why many smaller engines and all the extra complexity that comes with them seem to be the way forward for the modern space industry.
Written, Researched, and Presented by Paul Shillito - The Curious Droid
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I completely concur with all of you on this.
It is shameful, NASA has become part of the climate change propaganda arm of the Left.
I fully admit, there was a time when I thought we NEEDED NASA to do these things which were too big and expensive for private companies, and I felt that way right up to the end of the shuttle program.
I see the error of my ways. It CAN be done by a private company, and better, because they have financial skin in the game, where NASA did not.
I always compare the Wright Brothers to Samuel Langley. Langley got tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him to produce a flyable plane, and failed miserably.
The Wright Brothers used under a thousand dollars of their own money to successfully produce a flying machine.