I wish we didn't have to wait that long.
On 3/1/22 21:24, roxanna Mason wrote:
3. Which part of NASA is a jobs program do you not parse?
It's good to understand and admit that it's corporate welfare which I think, and hope, SLS gets canceled after it's madan flight so SpaceX can take over
and save US taxpayers Billions, maybe even trillions of $ over the course of the program.
Ken
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:19 PM William Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gentlemen, and I note that we are all men, some apparently not so
gentle:
1. This has nothing to do with amateur rockets.
2. I observe that this conversation reveals a very great deal
about our individual unconscious drives…but then I am a manager
and used to seeing what drives….
3. Which part of NASA is a jobs program do you not parse?
Just sayin’
Bill
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:07 PM roxanna Mason
<rocketmaster.ken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't speak french and I'm in the US,
Ken
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 12:03 PM Matthew JL
<prmattjl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In French a potato is an “earth apple,” I’d be wary of
your analogies ;)
Best,
-Matt L.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 2:29 PM roxanna Mason
<rocketmaster.ken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Apollo is apples and potatoes, it was never going to
be a long term program let alone reusable. Apollo 20
was going to be the end and didn't even make it that far.
Mars was supposed to follow.
Ken
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 11:10 AM Matthew JL
<prmattjl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Apollo was ~$90 billion adjusted for inflation for
the Saturn V ($50 billion) and CSM ($37 billion)
and yet we’re up in arms over the same capability
as that for about half the price (SLS being $27
billion and Orion being $24 billion).
Need I add that NASA’s budget is still
significantly less than half what it was at the
height of Apollo despite enjoying record public
enthusiasm.
PS - contract cost divided by number of units
always distorts the marginal cost and it’s a
mistake I see across the board.
Best,
-Matt L.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 1:42 PM Rand Simberg
<simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's now over twenty billion since 2010.
On 3/1/22 10:32, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
SLS, presumably. Is anyone shocked? ~$4
billion a year program budget, ~one flight a
year, let's see, divide 4 by 1... However
the SLS establishment massaged the numbers,
that's what it was always going to work out to.
Ignoring the huge development costs, of
course. I've lost track. How many tens of
billions have been sunk into this thing over
the years? With or without its Ares
predecessor, it's a very large number.
Henry
On 3/1/2022 10:09 AM, George Herbert wrote:
Aahhhhhhhhhhhhhh….
-George
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