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NASA weighing risk of adding crew to megarocket's first flight
Yahoo! News ^ | 2/24/17 | Marcia Dunn - AP

Posted on 02/24/2017 4:18:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is weighing the risk of adding astronauts to the first flight of its new megarocket, designed to eventually send crews to Mars.

The space agency's human exploration chief said Friday that his boss and the Trump administration asked for the feasibility study. The objective is to see what it would take to speed up a manned mission; under the current plan, astronauts wouldn't climb aboard until 2021— at best.

The Space Launch System, known as SLS, will be the most powerful rocket when it flies.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: megarocket; nasa; orion; risk; sls; weighing
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To: hal ogen

How much room do you think there is on that thing?McCain,Graham,and Schumer must go to the head of the line.


21 posted on 02/24/2017 4:43:12 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: DoughtyOne
-- If there isn't a reason to have people on it, I'm not sure I'd push it. --

That's the calculus in a nutshell. Sometimes "pushing it" is good, other times, not. If the team sees flight one as a "freebie," it takes some pressure off.

No flight is going to be perfectly safe.

22 posted on 02/24/2017 4:48:00 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

I understood your comments in the first post, but I appreciate the follow-up with additional.

What you said does make sense.

The test pilot comment was a pretty good point too.


23 posted on 02/24/2017 4:51:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Cboldt

Yes, I agree that none will be perfectly safe.


24 posted on 02/24/2017 4:54:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Cboldt

In a vehicle with a million parts even sending the
first one up empty is no guarantee for the second one.

Nothing is “safe”.

Still, I’d go, but they don’t send geezers into space.


25 posted on 02/24/2017 4:59:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Fill it full of refugees.


26 posted on 02/24/2017 5:00:38 PM PST by TonyM
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To: cyclotic

If you have never seen it, check out “October Sky” for an inspirational movie about rocketry and NASA.


27 posted on 02/24/2017 5:00:59 PM PST by Truth29
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To: tet68
-- In a vehicle with a million parts even sending the first one up empty is no guarantee for the second one. --

Yep. Might have a case of beginner's luck.

28 posted on 02/24/2017 5:01:48 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: NormsRevenge

What crew? Rocket goes straight up, pops a chute and lands. Crew? What crew?


29 posted on 02/24/2017 5:03:59 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Truth29

October Sky is probably what got him started. Very inspirational story


30 posted on 02/24/2017 5:08:20 PM PST by cyclotic (Republicans Are without excuse. Flood the Resolute Desk with sane legislation.)
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To: PAR35

That rminds me of what I used to call the race to the moon: America’s captured German scientists Vs.The Soviet Union’s captured German scientists.

CC


31 posted on 02/24/2017 5:22:43 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think Charles Manson is still technically alive.


32 posted on 02/24/2017 5:43:55 PM PST by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: Celtic Conservative

NASA began to fall apart when the OSI persecuted the former project director of the Saturn V project after his retirement.

Everyone ever associated with the OSI should be stripped of their citizenship and deported.


33 posted on 02/24/2017 5:46:59 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Dr. Von Braun?

CC


34 posted on 02/24/2017 5:59:44 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: al baby
So what they are saying is there are no ballsy astronauts like yesteryear only snowflaknaunts

There were two unmanned Apollo test flights before anyone climbed on top of the Saturn V booster. I'd be very surprised if there weren't several unmanned test flights with this new rocket before they try sending people up.
35 posted on 02/24/2017 5:59:53 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Celtic Conservative

Nope.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/03/us/arthur-rudolph-89-developer-of-rocket-in-first-apollo-flight.html

Rocket engines were his specialty. - the A-4 (V-2), a rocket powered car in the 30s, Saturn V....


36 posted on 02/24/2017 6:05:38 PM PST by PAR35
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To: tet68

I would go, even if something went FUBAR it would be one hell of an exit.
Probably wouldn’t even feel it.


37 posted on 02/24/2017 7:40:34 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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