JF Mezei wrote:

On 2017-04-29 08:59, Jeff Findley wrote:

Absolutely not. It would take far longer to certify the upper stage and
put all the ground infrastructure in place needed for manned flights.


So they build a whole brand spanking new rocket system to send people to
nowhere and it isn't designed to be man-rated from the get go, so they
intend to build a version and then change the designs to make it man rated?


You're an idiot. Do you not know what 'certify' means? It doesn't
matter whether it was "designed to be man-rated" or not. You still
have to actually do the work to man-rate it.


If that is truly the case, the contractors are smarter than I thought
(at convincing govt to spend money over far more years than necessary).


No, the issue is that you are far stupider than it is reasonable to
think you should be.



This "idea" almost certainly came from clueless people in Trump's
administration.


Didn't the seeds for first flight being manned come before jan 20th?


No. NASA announced it was going to study it in mid-February.

snip rationale to explain something that never happened


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