/sci/ - Science & Math

Why did they cancel it again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYWLbjH5qc

>>12744140
A perfect storm of asking for too much with too short a development time, a project supported by democrats as the republicans took office and shuttle legacy manufacturers who would lose out on the NASA honeypot and wanted to shut it down.

SSTOs are inevitable, to continue pushing stage separation designs instead of fully reusable SSTO designs after 2030 is to support a dead end technology. Change my mind.

>>11707551
Is it just me or does anyone else think that Lockheed is the only redeemable oldspace company right now.. I mean the shuttles external tank wasn't perfect but they worked with what they had and Orion is actually assembled unlike the rest of SLS.. and the Titan was a beautiful launch vehicle for it's time not to mention JUNO and all the other satellites it's made..

>>10513174
Money and jobs. If SLS was anywhere near as efficient as venturestar was it would have been abandoned years ago.

The term 'too big to fail' is not a paranoid commentary on the government and corporate collusion it's a tenable fact.

>>10321013
It's 5 times over budget, 10 years behind schedule with technology that's 30 years out of date.

God I fucking hate the politics that destroyed venturestar and gave birth to this abhorrent mess... to think those fucking scumbags complained about the fuel tank not being 'built to experimental requirements' yet went on to build this hunk of junk...