Comments on: SLS likely facing another launch delay

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:16:49 +0000

From the financial blog Motley Fool

“At an estimated $1.55 billion in cost per launch, and $209 billion total over its 30-year history, the U.S. Space Shuttle program was easily NASA’s most expensive project since the Apollo Moon Program — but NASA’s next project is going to make it look like a bargain. Two years ago, an investigation by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimated that each time NASA launches its new Space Launch System (SLS), taxpayers will ante up “over $2 billion.”
As it turns out, OMB was being optimistic.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-s-sls-rocket-just-got-3-2-billion-more-expensive/ar-AARZq3K?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

By: David M. Cook

David M. Cook — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 02:19:30 +0000

Of course SLS has a lower parts count, the damned thing uses solid rockets! Only stupid designers (or NASA) put solids on manned boosters! They vibrate too much, make too much noise, and you can‘t shut them off or throttle them!

By: Questioner

Questioner — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:56:28 +0000

Patrick Underwood

I’m really so disappointed that NASA is so lagging behind the Woke reality. So who cares about the first woman and the first colored person on the moon? I would have expected that the first transgender woman would be brought to the moon, but she must have previously been a world-famous male astronaut and must be married now to another transgender woman. That would be the least, wouldn’t it?

By: Patrick Underwood

Patrick Underwood — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:40:01 +0000

Deceptive advertising, explicitly Woke goals.

“SLS will be the most powerful rocket in the world and is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon in a single mission. With the Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon and establish long-term exploration in preparation for missions to Mars.”

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 20:07:56 +0000

Michael, My thoughts exactly. They deserve one another

Jester – OUCH!! The truth in those words is painful.

I can remember aviation writer Bill Gunston quoting a senator on an Air Force contract, “We will never again have $20 million airplanes!”

Gunston’s comment, “The senator was absolutely correct. Never again was an aircraft so cheap”

By: Jester Naybor

Jester Naybor — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 19:40:24 +0000

Its bit BOAT break out another thousand.

Except when Congress is involved these days, that is an acronym for Break Out Another Trillion.

By: Calvin Dodge

Calvin Dodge — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 17:44:25 +0000

“SLS likely facing another launch delay”

This is the “dog bites man” of space stories.

By: Ray Van Dune

Ray Van Dune — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 01:32:03 +0000

“SpaceX would have it ripped apart by now.”

Well only if the Foreman was there. If it was an off-shift and the Assistant Foreman was in charge, he would have correctly phoned the Foreman first, and then had it torn down.

By: Ray Van Dune

Ray Van Dune — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 01:24:55 +0000

Why don’t they seek the advice of Sen. Elizabeth Warren? She seems to understand how American innovation works… pay more taxes so the government has more to piss away.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 01:05:24 +0000

JhonB

Its bit BOAT break out another thousand.

Its close with Break out another billion.
But it would be better if it was Break Out Others Billions.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:55:34 +0000

They ought to switch WEB to a SLS launch. That way their delays can cover for each other.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 23:46:28 +0000

SLS has a lower part count. Boeing needs its own Musk. Now I hear he may want to step down from Tesla (good) and SpaceX (bad) to be an “influencer.”

What?

By: geoffc

geoffc — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 23:24:30 +0000

Gee, SpaceX installed 29 engines in 14 hours.

NASA will take a month to change a component (An important one, and no doubt non-trivial to change) on a single engine.

Hmm… Which seems like a more sustainable model? I wonder…

By: JhonB

JhonB — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 22:10:09 +0000

“NASA is developing a plan and updated schedule to replace the engine controller”……SpaceX would have it ripped apart by now. The plan would be” replace the part and start now”
The real plan: Lets see how much we can add to the bill. When you own a boat you alsays said BOAT Stood for “Break Out Another Thousland” With SLs it would be Break out another Billion.

By: Scott M.

Scott M. — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 20:35:59 +0000

For a moment I was confused b/c I thought SLS was supposed to launch this month, but then I realized I was thinking of the Webb Telescope…you know, the OTHER hideously overschedule and overbudget NASA boondoggle. :D