View Single Post
  #6  
Old February 15th 19, 02:29 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
[email protected]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 9,472
Default NASA's SLS rocket. Questions about it

On Friday, February 15, 2019 at 6:20:23 AM UTC-5, StarDust wrote:
On Friday, February 15, 2019 at 3:13:03 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Friday, February 15, 2019 at 6:08:45 AM UTC-5, StarDust wrote:
On Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 10:20:03 PM UTC-8, RichA wrote:
The SLS is the next giant rocket that will be used for long range manned spaceflight, or the moon as a target. But it's way over budget (how much is really left for it after the ISS sucks up so much?). Some of the technology being used to built it is different. Like friction welding to put the tanks (outboard, like the Shuttle) together in sections.

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Looks like the French Ariane rockets from the 90's /w solid boosters on the side!
http://www.normandale.edu/Images/wor...ane_france.jpg


After a while, all of these spacecraft start to look alike.


Specially the Chines and Russian ones!


The Soviets copied the Shuttle and the Chinese copied the Soyuz.

The Soyuz design plan has been in use for 52 years. The Shuttle should have been replaced by 1990.