/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.9217617]

Space shuttle > All of NASA's spacecrafts
Recognize Superiority
That's straight up fact

[Anonymous No.9217651]

The space shuttle was a big fat mistake. It costed so many money and also some lives.
It's easily recognizable and a cultural icon, but from a technical point of view it's a piece of shit. It's the reddit of spacecrafts.

[Anonymous No.9217656]

>>9217651
It looked cool though

[Anonymous No.9217659]

>>9217651
>many money
you're a mistake you troglodyte

[Anonymous No.9217694]

>>9217651
Rocketfags cant even write a sentence
go back to commi land

[Anonymous No.9218730]

>>9217617
WRONG
Shuttlefags can't compete

[Anonymous No.9218741]

Has there ever been another spacecraft so A E S T H E T I C ?

[Anonymous No.9218749]

>shuttlecucks think they can compete with the CHAD DICKET
laughable

[Anonymous No.9218767]

>>9218730
>>9218741
>>9218749
*blocks your path*

*gets reused*
*inspired children to become engineers*
*literally flies back from space instead of getting cucked by the atmosphere*

[Anonymous No.9218769]

>>9218767
>*gets reused*
whore
i like my spacecraft pure and untainted

[Anonymous No.9218896]

>>9218767
>crashes and kills six astronauts plus one civilian
>crashes again and kills another seven astronauts

only spacecraft to go on a killing spree lol

[Anonymous No.9218900]

>>9218769
Forgot I still had to watch this episode, thanks.
Glad they didn't fuck up Toga's voice actor.

[Anonymous No.9218906]

>>9218896

I'm a shuttlefag but loled

Also went to Christa McAuliffe Elementary School so possibly biased.

[Anonymous No.9218936]

>>9218900
my balls are too blue for season 3 to be QUITE fucking HONEST with you 先輩

[Anonymous No.9219011]

>>9217617
The Shuttle was really shit.

It didn't even have a launch abort system. The first four flights had ejection seats for the commander and pilot only, and the ejection itself could have killed them. Most of the Challenger crew were alive up to the point where the cockpit hit the ocean.

>>9218767
Shuttle reuse was supposed to save money but it ended up costing almost as much as building a new one every turn around.

It was a monumental mistake which only saving grace was the Hubble. Being able to carry the Hubble into orbit and allowing the service of it.

[Anonymous No.9219018]

>>9219011
Or should I say launch escape system?

They had launch abort profiles but those were for landing the Shuttle again. Basically if anything happened during launch which meant they wouldn't be able to land again they were fucked. And I'm talking about something more obvious than what happened with Columbia.

[Anonymous No.9219035]

Crazy how big the Orbiter is for a space vehicle.

[Anonymous No.9219037]

They wasted all that mass putting WINGS into orbit
the absolute madmen

[Anonymous No.9219039]

STS failed in so many ways, but it was beautiful while it lasted

[Anonymous No.9219047]

I get where OP is coming from but I feel like the SS is partially if not mostly responsible for the US completely losing interest in space. Like Icarus, we flew too close to the sun and when NASA started killing people it seemed that the American public thought maybe we should just stay on the ground and that sentiment held until recently.

[Anonymous No.9219514]

>>9219037
wings and a cockpit.

[Anonymous No.9219520]

You don't need anything flying in space if you have no intention of doing anything in space. That was it's problem, hence stuck in 70's tech and being essentially welfare for bureaucrats and few companies. Even the existing design could have been improved here and there, boosters being the most obvious example. But, why bother?

[Anonymous No.9220125]

>>9219011
Saturn V could have put the Hubble into orbit 10x over in one launch lmao