I for one would be happy if NASA was given its deserved share of the budget
rather than falling back on the scraps that are allotted to it. Remember
the Penny4NASA push 10 years ago? More of that, please…
Best,
-Matt L.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 2:31 AM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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