JF Mezei wrote on Fri, 16 Mar 2018
17:05:50 -0400:

On 2018-03-16 03:16, Niklas Holsti wrote:

I hope that SLS is also a transitional temporary project, and that BFR
will replace it. In this ephemeral role, too, Falcon Heavy competes with
SLS.


Since SLS has no commercial goals, has limited set of test flights with
no planned use beyond one crewed flight around the moon, it is not in
any competition except for sucking up government funding away from from
more productive uses.


I'm sure we've covered this before. While of course stuff out more
than half a dozen years tends to get tentative, there are certainly
'planned uses' for SLS beyond one flight around the Moon. That flight
is EM-2 (EM-1 is the same mission but unmanned) currently scheduled
for 2022. I see 9 more missions planned after that, mostly involved
with putting together the Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway. Is any of
this sounding at all familiar to you or have you once again lost all
memory of anything that was told to you before lunch?


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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
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