And they won't shut up about women and diversity. As delivered by women and 'diversity'. No science chit chat, that would be too hard.
I hate anything that makes me think 'hey maybe theimpossible1 is right'
And they won't shut up about women and diversity. As delivered by women and 'diversity'. No science chit chat, that would be too hard.
I hate anything that makes me think 'hey maybe theimpossible1 is right'
The entire Artemis program is a jobs program for the industry that produced the space shuttle. There is nothing they can do that SpaceX can't do faster and cheaper.
I fully expect today's test launch to scrub.Again.--edit--
Nope, they made it up, in orbit now.
It was apparent when the announcer gleefully said "every state contributed a component to this rocket!" like that means something.
That's the Senate Launch System performing as expected.
Senate Lunch System
It means it gets buy-in as a project because it provides pork project Keynesian spending in as many places as possible, leading to more money for the people who approve these projects.
SpaceX won't be allowed to do anything that isn't routine because it would expose NASA for the waste that it is. This regime is euthanizing the Faustian Man.
Yup. No reason at all to use SSMEs and SRBs for this kind of launcher, except to keep pampered old Boeing bros employed in congressional districts.
They could build it and then just dump it in the ocean, its real purpose is served either way.