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Private manned moonflight...
http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/2...moon-next-year
I wonder if that may have been wispered into Trump's ear and got him interested in having EM-1 be manned? rick jones -- oxymoron n, commuter in a gas-guzzling luxury SUV with an American flag these opinions are mine, all mine; HPE might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hpe.com but NOT BOTH... |
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JF Mezei wrote:
On 2017-02-27 16:47, Rick Jones wrote: http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/2...moon-next-year The timing of Musk's announcement is most interesting. He states Falcon9-Heavy will be second most powerful rocket after Saturn-5. Is there an implied "at least until SLS flies" or does Falcon-9-Heavy beat SLS ? There's an explicitly stated "when it flies". I'm pretty sure Musk isn't speaking for all time. If NASA kills SLS and retasks Orion to be a ISS taxi, the savings may allow NASA to comply with cost cutting AND still have much leftover to increase budgets for other programmes. But what would be the point? Orion would just be a higher priced version of the two commercial capsules. Musk's announcement may be designed as a catalyst to trigger the end of SLS and possibly Orion. I doubt he cares much about either of them, since an SLS/Orion mission will cost about 10x what a Falcon Heavy/Dragon V2 mission will cost. -- "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." -- Charles Pinckney |
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On 28/02/2017 8:47 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/2...moon-next-year Financed by the people who want to go, apparently. Some people definitely have too much money. Sylvia. |
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JF Mezei wrote:
On 2017-02-27 18:52, Fred J. McCall wrote: I doubt he cares much about either of them, since an SLS/Orion mission will cost about 10x what a Falcon Heavy/Dragon V2 mission will cost. Considering what he announced for his Mars plans, it would benefit him for NASA to kill SLS so that any Mars mission relies on SpaceX' rockets. Nonsense. Of the four flights currently on the books for SLS through 2026, none are headed anywhere near Mars. Meanwhile, Musk is talking about a first crewed flight of his Interplanetary Transport System to Mars in (wait for it) 2026. And it will cost a lot less than the billion dollars per flight that SLS will cost. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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JF Mezei wrote:
On 2017-02-28 04:03, Fred J. McCall wrote: Nonsense. Of the four flights currently on the books for SLS through 2026, none are headed anywhere near Mars. Yet NASA pitches SLS/Orion as a mission to Mars thing in its PR. But no Mars mission on the schedule for at least 10 years. NASA pitches it as all things to all people. The lesson there is don't believe marketing videos. So it would benefit SpaceX for NASA to stop spending on the rocket to nowehere and instead allocate that money for a project that is done by SpaceX. Except that isn't how it works and nobody is stupid enough to think it is. Kill SLS/Orion and that money mostly goes away or goes into other NASA developments. Who benefits from SLS/orion spending? Are those competitors to SpaceX, and if so, it shows how SpaceX benefits if NASA kills SLS/Orion and direct those funds towards SpaceX. Nope. SLS/Orion isn't competitive to anything. It simply costs too much. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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