In 1969 I expected that this thing would actually get built. I feel cheated.
Open the pod bay door, HAL.
Posted on 01/04/2020 1:38:27 PM PST by rktman
i think liquid methane, stainless steel hull, resuable components, and raptor engines are the innovations that boeing could not deliver but spacex does.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. S/b, After The Boeing Starliner Snafu, NASA Must Rethink Why It Does Business with Boeing.
If enthusiasts hate NASA for whatever reason, they can root for SpaceX.
I don’t hate NASA, but it has not been managed well, especially under the last administration.
In 1969 I expected that this thing would actually get built. I feel cheated.
Open the pod bay door, HAL.
“The space program was a race to build an ICBM.”
Well maybe at the very beginning. We were building ICBM rockets by 1962. The Moon rockets were massively larger than what ICBMs need.
NASA did the best they could to keep that from being built from the 90s on, unless they themselves built it.
They were too busy killing off threats to the Shuttle and ensuring that every US spacecraft would have wings, due to the retired Air Force idiots running the place (among other reasons).
“I recall a bunch of NASA rockets blowing up. “
Navy rocket actually. Vanguard.
No offense to those who worked on the Shuttle but I really grew to despise that thing. It was gobbling up all the resources and my 2001 Space Wheel wasn’t getting built.
There was nothing particularly intriguing about the Shuttle to the taxpayer/audience/observer. As you say it was a glorified airplane. If NASA is going to spend a ton of our money they better keep us entertained.
Musk better get on the stick and build it. And since the name Pan Am isn’t being used anymore he can ditch SpaceX for it.
Unfortunately, the current owners of the Pan Am intellectual property refuse to sell or license it for space purposes at the current time.
It looks like it might be Bigelow Aerospace that builds it, though.
It looks like the current name-owner is an apparel and fashion company. They use it solely for T shirts and handbags and stuff. Bastards.
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