Had to come inside to watch the booster stick the landing on the drone barge.
Posted on 09/24/2022 3:06:14 PM PDT by Reno89519
While average Americans are excited the United States is planning to send people back to the moon through NASA’s Artemis project, the space agency’s inspector general said the cost is “unsustainable,” Fox News reported.
NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin predicted that the first four missions will cost $4.1 billion each and told Congress that price "strikes us as unsustainable."
He projected that by 2025, NASA will have spent $93 billion on the Artemis lunar program.
The price tag is far more than the space agency’s lunar program was projected to cost a decade ago, CNBC reported.
In 2012, NASA officials estimated each mission would cost about $500 million, with the first rocket shooting off in 2017.
Now, the cost has increased eightfold, according to the NASA auditor.
Artemis I was originally scheduled to take off the last week of August but weather and hardware concerns postponed the launch.
NASA engineers had been unable to get the engines to the proper temperature range required to start them at liftoff, Fox News reported.
Launch controllers also had to deal with storms in the area that delayed propellant loading operations, as well as “a leak at the quick disconnect on the 8-inch line used to fill and drain core stage liquid hydrogen and a hydrogen leak from a valve used to vent the propellant from the core stage intertank,” Fox News reported.
Then their ICBM and space program took off.
Just think a IPhone or a cheap laptop could have run the space program or run D-Day
GOING OUTSIDE TO WATCH A FALCON BLAST OFF NOW.
You are showing a 55+ year-old launch system.
The US has a far better system now, the Crewed Dragon. Indeed a Russian will be flown up to the ISS on one soon.
Horrible to see you pimp for Putin these days.
All three, but I lean heavily toward the sabotage aspect.
The Left has been a Fifth column in the United States since at least the 1920's.
The first thing to get out of the death spiral is to break the Media oligopoly, so there is some competition in politics and ideas.
That is ongoing and of great importance. Almost everything follows from that. Nearly all of our problems come from the constant lying and distortion of reality in the Media.
We have to defeat those in the USA who are determined to tear down the most successful country the world has ever seen.
The election of Donald Trump shows it can be done.
I believe it will happen along with a great revival in the United States.
Whether you are a believer or not, it is obvious it has been a combination of Judeo/Christian morals and the ideas of natural law and limited government which our success is based on.
We have to return to that.
Several NASA factoids.
The Orion / Artemis project uses some of the old Space Shuttle parts (engines, etc.)
Also, NASA has certain contracts they award that allow massive cost overrun. While the new James Webb telescope is, so far, performing very well, it was billions over budget. NASA outsources some work that does very well, and the many Mars rovers have exceeded expectations and parameters.
Any long term success in space will be commercial competition, and Musk is showing the way. While SpaceX is reusing / refurbishing rockets (one first stage has been used 13 times!) NASA will use large rockets once. Ridiculous.
Had to come inside to watch the booster stick the landing on the drone barge.
That’s pretty much true.
At first, Team Falcon used to wash, clean and repaint the used boosters.
But after a while they stopped. The gray charcoal coating gave them the look of veterans.
The “dirtier” (looking) on the outside, the more proven the booster.
Those rooms are kinda - pale. Lots of ice people.
Where are their slaves?
Crew Dragon is another private industry Musk/Falcon X creation.
So what is your point?
A Lost Generation (of genius engineers).
There should be medals, and museums.
Best we can do is visit Kennedy Space Center. Worth every entrance ticket dollar X10. Plan to arrive at opening and stay until closing, and you still can’t see it all. My highest “FL tourist destination” recommendation without a doubt.
They were just ripping off the “Lost Scrolls of Wakanda.”
/sarc
Compare the SLS specs against SpaceX
SpaceX
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_heavy-lift_launch_vehicle
SLS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
SpaceX isn’t even close. Bang for the buck; solid propulsive is way more efficient and powerful. But it’s not something we can turn on and off. It’s like a Highway flare. 2 minutes of 6.4 Million lbs thrust They are more than 75% of the thrust at takeoff. Core is just over 2 million lbs thrust, but they can throttle up/down and turn off and on
Obviously, 1960’s nasa did not have enough diversity and inclusion.
‘Cept for the black women behind the scenes, that did all the hard math.
Do I win?
Apollo used Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen (LOx). NASA is horribly corrupted by politics. Global warming and all that crap
SLS and Shuttle used LOx and Liquid Hydrogen are the liquid fuels now. They burn and make water vapor; but far less energy per pound. And at around -490° F, they bring along all kinds of cryogenic “issues”.
Liberal grifting and corruption including the grifting of “Diversity”.
It is excellent.
I got the insider tour with Meteorologist colleagues... (brag)
No doubt, we could of kept pax Americana, from space, if we had not been cut down by globalist insiders at the State department. Globalists who favored the Soviet Union over the USA.
Multiplex communications have been used in cars for decades. Far less wiring means less interconnections, and greater reliability.
You know the answer perfectly well, ;’} Amazon used to carry a book titled “Whitey on the Moon” ... it gave historical support to that answer. For obvious reasons, Amazon pulled the book.
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