I don't know how I missed this until just now. We're sending up several missions to the moon with the express purpose of landing BIPOC women on a dead rock by 2025, I shit you not. How many billions of dollars are being wasted just so we can drop a LGBLT flag to erase Buzz Aldrin from history?
Some day I'm gonna be looking at the moon through a telescope with my son just to show him that we can't even escape this faggotry in space. God I hate everything right now.
Wait, so, pardon my ignorance, but did they rip those four rockets of one of the shuttles, or did they have le spares..?? 🤔
Because that is damn close to sacrilege, if they did!!
Yes, each of the four SSMEs have flown on previous space shuttles. There's a pool of about 36 of them because when a shuttle would come back after a mission, they'd take some time to inspect and refurbish them before putting them on the next orbiter that's ready to fly.
Part of the outcry of the wastefulness of SLS is that for every rocket that flies, four SSMEs will be dropped into the ocean. Same with the solid rocket boosters. Instead of parachuting down and being refurbished, SLS is just going to drop them into the ocean too.
Of course, that number is n-8 for, well, Columbia and Challenger, sadly…
RIP both of those crews…
NASA would seemingly rather we all forgot that ever happened, unfortunately… Particularly Columbia, I would say…