LOL Videos of awesome

Been forgetting to post this.

 

Edit: SCRUB, next opportunity Sept 2nd

Official NASA


Everyday Astronaut


NASASpaceflight.com

 

Something to watch after Sandman?

 

Bound to be teething problems with something so complex.

 

It's time for a 100% (in)accurate biopic

 

Yeah, only problem is that phrase has been repeated ad nauseam for the past 8 years. It's really time to deliver something.

 

Have to agree but I also can't argue with the logic that
(can't remember who said it today) in years to come people won't remember a delay of a few days but they would remember an exploding rocket.

Is the manned mission planned for a couple of years time?

 

it's a load of shuttle-era parts cobbled together.... the gaffer tape probably came loose...

 

It's not about the spaceflight, it's about all those lovely, expensive pork barrels!

 

I saw that interview and, I can’t remember who he was either. He was addressed as Dr. though, so methinks reasonable to assume he was someone who knows what he’s talking about.

 

I still have a very clear mental image of the classroom that I was sitting in listening to the radio when the Challenger exploded in January of '86...

 

I understand what you’re saying but, consider the amount of effort car manufacturers put in to making sure a new model is problem free, then they still have to issue product recalls, after the cars come to market. Even a high-end modern car is simple compared to Artemis.

 

As already pointed out, there is very little new stuff in SLS:

Solid boosters are same as shuttle with an additional segment
Main tank is a modified version of the shuttle tank
Main engines are actual flight hardware taken off the shuttles after retirement
Upper stage is from the Delta IV*
Orion was originally part of the Constellation program
The service module is a modified version of a European cargo vehicle
Mobile launch tower and ground support equipment was originally part of the Constellation program (probably with some leftovers from the shuttle as well)


*Will be replaced with the exploration upper stage, which requires a new f*%$ing mobile launch tower.

 

Sad but true. Dispite all the handouts, Boeing has now managed to f*$& up SLS, Starliner, 737 Max and parts of the 787 program all in the span of less than a decade.

 

saw this, thought of @Gareth Halfacree

 

It's worth looking past the 'youtube makes you do this **** to stand a chance of being noticed' thumbnail of which i'm not a fan either... imo...

 

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