In the last couple of weeks we saw SpaceX lose its oldest booster, get grounded, return to flight and still not launch Polaris Dawn.
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NASA is great a throwing more money at projects like SLS while having better options that were far cheaper and more advanced.
Lol there was always a zero percent change New Glenn was going to fly in time for this Mars window.
Spoiler Alert: Starliner made it back to the dirt without issue, however, can we say it would have made it with crew on board? Not really… they elected to take a much shorter route home than the crewed flight would have taken. Not sure why (radiation?), but this was probably done so as to reduce the number of firings that the capsule's thrusters were required to make, and thus reduce the likelihood that they would fail en route. So, it's not really valid to say it would have made it with crew.
Oof, it's a bit harsh to call Polaris Dawn a tourist mission, even with the word "ultimate" in front of it, given the research and groundbreaking tech demos the participants have been training for 2.5 years to achieve. Is that really how you see it?
Scott, what is that object dead center between your eye brows.?
If ine was to be in the area of White Sands during a capsule landing.
Would you wamt to be near White Sands to see the best fire trail? Or 50 or 100 miles up stream?
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deliver van and box has a huge PENIS on it.
That is so much money for a tower, Cost Plus is something that seems really really detrimental. Sometimes I think the government should have their own construction company, I mean there must be enough big projects nationally at various government facilities to justify such a thing. Need a launch tower, roll out "The Department of Infrastructure". Replace the key bridge? roll em out. Trim as many middle men as possible. Of course there is a flaw with this idea, The friend of a senator cannot overcharge the related agency needing work done by three times the actual cost of something like that.
Why was she slatted to be the mission commander if she's never been to space before? I know we haven't put many folks up lately, but there's no need increase risk by making the rookie the mission commander.
For some reason I just noticed the russian space clock on your desk. Wow, must be a story behind how you got that. Will search through the old videos to see if you mention it.🕝🕒🕓
Great info, thanks! You sound tipsy though 😅
NASAs second launch tower will probably cost more than the entire Star Ship project at this point.
You work many days a year to fund government waste like this, but it's OK, it "creates jobs" 😂💩🤡 Get socialists out of government now and always.
What % of the costs of the launch tower go to:
> Unions
> Diversity hires
> Make work jobs
> Jobby jobs for pointless government workers?
Small government now.
The Sue Origin Chode repeatedly violating Jacklyn is going to be a funny and never ending joke. What a mess that could make too…
Oh no Sue Origin's Chode 1 has blown up all over Jacklyn yet again 😂
Yeah… thanks for that Scott… I really needed an image of Jeff Bezos' mum and "certain anatomical structures" put into my mind whilst I was eating sausages…. yeah, thanks for that!
SLS seems like a government spending joke in real time, except it’s real and the costs are astronomical, so to speak.
SLS: Exactly it's money being pumped into this fiasco that could be used for some really great science!
How incompetent do you have to be to build a spacecraft without using thread locker. Boeing engineering FTW!
Only a fascist government (classic definition) would allow cost-plus contracts. Fascism = big government and big business working together to extract maximum wealth from citizens. That's exactly what we have here in the US. Not "Crony Capitalism," but true fascism.
imagine being such a daddy's girl that daddy's money buys you a seat on a space ship. all before you've actually done anything for society.
How in the what do you lose those big-ass fuel tanks only to find them crushed in a landfill?
Wow, that Vega absolutely jumps off the landing pad.
Shouldn't BO reach orbit before shooting for Mars? Or even the moon? Big plans for a flying dildo company.
Bechtel is pure evil
Itarp, a new low.
16:25 – "They are taking money from other things…" So, government in general?
Thank you Mr Manley for these entertaining and comprehensive videos
Whoop! Catalina sky survey shout out!
So it shook to bits 😂
C'mon Scott,
That was the birth of Hal.
itarps? You've been watching too much Sawyer
13:16 yeah, i also can't live without my steam account.
Scott, looks like you are going to have to go to weekly updates or you are only going to have time for update of an hour!
Please talk about the Soyuz electromechanical clock on your desk! Where did you get it and is it a replica?