Comment on NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable

• weew@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If NASA cancelled every single contact they had with SpaceX… they might be able to afford 1/3rd of an SLS launch. Or maybe not, because then they’d have to start paying Russians for rides up to the ISS.

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• InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can I ask: do you actually believe NASA builds their own rockets themselves? Like out back in their shed with a table saw and pliers?

  The prime contractor on the sls is boeing.

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s just hate for musk, people who hate musk have blinders on and think every company he has any input into is a scam.

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    • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not a scam, but a tool to help enemies of the democracy.

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      • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        SpaceX is a tool that directly aids democracy. Without it, we still wouldn’t have independent access to space. We would be relying on the Russian Soyuz to carry us to the ISS, and due to the current situation, I don’t think they’d have let us continue riding the Soyuz if we didn’t have our own method.

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    • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, I hate musk as much as the rest of them. SpaceX is the only company he has that’s worth a damn. I was really kind of happy when he started screwing with Twitter because he has less time to screw up SpaceX.

      Now, that said, SpaceX needs competition. I will take us for musk to have one bad trip hop in there and start screwing that company over. If NASA is fully dependent on them…

      SpaceX isn’t doing anything another company can’t do. It’s just that Boeing owns our f****** government.

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So Tesla and starlink don’t count?

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    • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be fair, based on his companies the odds of that bet are quite good.

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So Tesla is a scam? SpaceX is a scam? Starlink is a scam? Wut???

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boeing used to be a good engineering firm.

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    • Ddhuud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, up until mid 90s

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    • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As certified by Boeing?

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• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  SpaceX is getting 2-3 bn dollars for Starship HLS development, most of the funding is coming from SpaceX itself. SLS costs up to 4 bn per flight. I’m not even going to mention the insane cost-overruns and years of delays associated with NASA’s cost-plus contract with Boeing to build the damn thing.

  SLS is a sunk cost fallacy.

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• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even then, commercial launch providers get much further with less money. Sure, if NASA had more budget, they could afford the SLS program. But the commercial launch providers show that they could be more efficient with the money they do have.

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• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That would destroy US space capabilities. Just because Elon is a racist dipshit doesn’t mean we should stop building the best rockets in the world.

  Honestly if we have less money to Boeing and more to spacex, NASA would be way better off.

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