Comments on: NASA abandons 4th attempt to complete SLS dress rehearsal countdown https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 02:52:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1315026 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 02:52:53 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1315026 When you’re right, you’re right Mr. Zimmerman. And to your credit, on this subject, you’ve been spot on for more than a decade.

Nice work.

]]> By: pawn https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314574 Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:36:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314574 Does anyone here know what the root cause was of all the hydrogen leaks in the summer of 1990?

]]> By: pawn https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314573 Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:31:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314573 Most of it is going into the ocean either way.

]]> By: GaryMike https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314430 Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:59:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314430 Pardon me for quoting myself: “Launching it into the ocean won’t pay anything back to us taxpayers.”

I missed the opportunity to make a point about unnecessary sunk cost.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314162 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:52:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314162 In reply to Jeremy, Alabama.

Jeremy, Alabama: You need to read my 2017 policy paper, Capitalism in Space (a free pdf download).

Thus, we never had to make a Hobson’s choice, if we had demanded our politicians do the right thing. Private enterprise has always been a better choice over SLS, that would accomplish things quickly and cost far less.

Sadly, Americans haven’t been demanding right action from our politicians for decades. We thus get the government we choose.

]]> By: Jeremy, Alabama https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314097 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:56:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314097 SLS is awful. Bolting together existing, warehoused components onto some tubes lengthened a few feet is not a $30B program. And a $20B airtight 60s-tech capsule is … words fail.

But. If the feds are going to waste $50B, the GOP can waste it on welfare for engineers in my back yard, or the Dems can waste it on the “war on poverty” while creating a new class of dependents/voters. A Hobson’s choice, I would take SLS.

]]> By: BillB https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314086 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:24:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314086 Well, there goes another few months slip in the FAA decision on environmental issues at Boca Chica. That or the FAA finally succumbs to the anti-tech “environmentalists” and requires a full, new environmental assessment that will take years to complete. And new issues will be created when SpaceX moves to launching in Florida, SLS or no SLS.

]]> By: GaryMike https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314018 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 03:42:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314018 Recycle the thing before launch, while it has recoverable scrap value.

Launching it into the ocean won’t pay anything back to us taxpayers.

]]> By: sippin_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1314011 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 03:04:19 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1314011 Steven,

Not just the jobs. Sometimes it is direct money into projects. And I am sure that none of those politicians have any ties to who works those projects.

But the jobs is not really their direct measure. It is the numbers that they can convert into direct votes and campaign donations.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313946 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:15:42 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313946 ALS/NLS, Magnum, CaLV, Ares V DIRECT….this should have been built years ago. D-IV assembly would likely have gouged the taxpayer more. SD HLLV advocates have been on the outside looking in when Venture Star was the rage.. they finally sit in the drivers seat and now everyone wants to cut their throat…

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313763 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:05:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313763 The relevant bit from the above, concerning the “scientific technological elite”
https://youtu.be/mHDgsh6WPyc?t=568

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313757 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 15:55:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313757 After it explodes, they’ll spend 3 years reconstructing the debris, as part of an extensive (and costly) accident investigation. No stone left unturned and all….

Dwight D. Eisenhower –
Farewell Speech – Address to the Nation –
January 17, 1961
https://youtu.be/mHDgsh6WPyc
16:14

]]> By: Steven https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313756 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 15:53:10 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313756 Yeah but how many people did it employ on the way? THAT is the only thing the federal government cares about, NOT about piffling things like if the rocket works…

]]> By: commodude https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313730 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:46:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313730 SLS is a tribute to the political bribery (oops campaign contribution) system that runs the country. Nothing is as permanent as a bureaucratic program.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313291 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:11:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313291 Totally convinced it’s going to explode.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313174 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:13:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313174 I meant “Well, IF they don’t waiver the big fireworks….”

My typing as solid as the Senate’s chances for a Merit Badge in “Rocketry”!

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313170 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:07:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313170 Well, they don’t waiver the big fireworks, by the time they get them replaced, there will be a SpaceX rocket orbiting the moon, if not standing tall on it!

]]> By: john hare https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313165 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:58:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313165 I’m betting they waver the solids well past the sell by date.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313108 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:12:38 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313108 WWED? Rocket garden addition.

]]> By: Tregonsee https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-to-try-for-4th-time-to-complete-sls-dress-rehearsal-countdown/#comment-1313079 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:03:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84033#comment-1313079 They should have put this out of our mi$ery years ago. WWED. What would Elon do?

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