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Fuckkkk I just had a bad dream where S24/B7 lifted off and cleared the tower but a few seconds after launch they started wobbling until the vehicle flipped over and exploded, leveling the launch site.
Terrifying.

>>14607965
NASA’s budget isn’t too small. They just suck at money management. NASA has had studied which state that missions to Mars could be done for the same cost and timeline as the ISS, but they never commit becauze they’re stupid

Not hard mode: SLS isn’t a bad design, it’s just taken advantage of by bad contractors.

>>14602890
It’s exactly that. Ares I was always having performance issues.
In the latter days of Constellation, NASA realized that having a gigantic descent stage for Altair was kind of shitty so they even planned to build a third stage to finish TLI and complete LOI.

Ares V was gnarly. Damn thing made SLS look small.

>UwU omg NASA daddy I’m full stop inflating me...

Seriously though, why doesn’t SpaceX just build expendable Starship/Reusable Superheavy first? Starship is dirt cheap and only uses 3 raptor engines.

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>>11994699
Shit I meant left I’m retarded.

Anyhow yeah I did a bunch of math on this scenario and I uh tested it in KSP RSS.

Another alternative that saves even more development money is using a balloon tank on the second stage of this Ares V. The balloon stage means that you don’t even need to stretch the first stage, and you can thus make a DIRECT-like vehicle