“Under the Obama plan, NASA will spend $100 billion on human spaceflight over the next 10 years in order to accomplish nothing”
.....Reminds me of his Presidency.....
This is like an absurdist play.
Why are we developing delivery systems that we have no plans to use?
Do Muslims feel good about this?
In a nutshell, says one thing but does another. Just like how he want to redistribute wealth, as long as it goes to well-paid union employees.
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I hate to nitpick, but “five segments” is not the same as “five stages”. I hope NASA engineers know the difference, this reporter apparently doesn’t.
Using Orion as an escape capsule only is a real disaster. I guess Nasa’s going on with this in hopes that it can be recovered. Certainly if we get rid of that idiot hussein it can be.
He’ll throw $50b to his union buddies at a second, but could care less about our scientific abilities.
Given that this is a big evolution of the STS SRB, I wonder whether STS could handle it (if the Orbiters weren’t being retired) and if so how much performance improvement they’d see?
I’d guess that, assuming this monster wouldn’t rip the shuttle stack apart during ascent, the limiting factor wouldn’t be the lofting weight ... but rather how much weight the Orbiter could safely return with in an abort (RTLS, TAL) situation.
Mr. Zumbrin is saying this as if he expected the 0-bot to be honest and consistent. Why? What evidence did he have by which to construct such an expectation? I don't get it.
/rhetorical faux-befuddlement