Slashdot Mirror
NASA's New Shuttle
j0ugh writes "NASA releases plans for a new spacecraft (Audio stream contains the meat) that would replace the space shuttle. The vehicle is part of a system that will be capable of putting astronauts on the moon by 2018, laying the groundwork for space travel to Mars. NASA says the new system is designed to be 10 times safer than the space shuttle"
Why fly a spacecraft, when you can just take the elevator?
It looks almost exactly like the Apollo system.
(if we're going back to 1969, can we also drop the war on drugs? thanks.)
"The HLV is five (!) SSMEs fueled by a large ET directly above"
Imagine a...
Oh never mind
Next they'll be telling us that they plan to have that "powered flight" thing all sewn up by 2040.
where there's fish, there's cats
and 30% cooler, with 200% more wiz-bang factor!
___
If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
I take it they'll be taking advantage of CGI this time, hey we might even see Shrek make an appearance.
Is that 10x in metric or english measurements?
Seriously.. Revamping 1970's tech to go to the moon? So for the last damn near 40 years, we've spent billion upon billion for you to revamp 70's tech and go to the moon. When you should of already had a fucking base station there by now.
What NASA needs is someone who knows what the fuck is going on. A forward thinker with some goals to run this goddamn outfit. You know, someone who can say yeah. "It'd probably be a good idea to have a Base Station in outerspace where we could easily launch missions from instead of having to worry about earths atmosphere and large gravitational pull. Ok, lets do it".
Instead we get "Well, shuttle program looks fucked.. Mars had some cool stuff with the robots.. These images are cool. Jupiter might have more moons? Whats this on saturns belt? Cool, cool.. Whats next?? Wanna go back to the moon?? Sweet, good idea, well then the best way to do it? REVAMP EVERYTHING FROM THE 1970'S!!"
Holyyy shit; how bout we fund private companies instead of my taxes going to NASA?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Yeah... Especially since it took about nine years the first time.
My left arm is all scars and I consider that a valid excuse...
NASA say it can carry four astronauts to the Moon or potentially six to Mars. Do I sense a problem with their math skills? Maybe another of those pesky metric conversion errors. :p Anyhow
:-D
Metric humans, like the ones in europe, are smaller than the imperial humans here in the US. So you can fit more of them in the capsule.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
...which makes one wonder why NASA doesn't just use cars...
I think they tried that back in the 50s. The program came to a tragic end after the first launch, when one of the monkeys rolled down the window.
Give me $20B, and I'll plan and build a giant Hot Wheels launch track -- complete with pointless loop in the middle -- and we'll fling cars into orbit all day long!
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
There are 10 kinds of people: Those who think in binary, and those who don't.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
"I've got it - Let's take an SRB, put the fuel tank on top, and put a bigger Apollo capsule on top of that... And it will only cost $100B!"
My wife doesn't listen to me either...