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The point here being that it was not bureaucracy or the government that trapped NASA in LEO. It was NASA own design process. Blaming everything always on the c
by nickik 6y ago
The point here being that it was not bureaucracy or the government that trapped NASA in LEO. It was NASA own design process.
Blaming everything always on the congress/president is a way for NASA to never take responsibility. All the success gets credit to NASA but failure is always somebody wrong doing.
- pfdietz 6y agoThe point I was making was there was no plausible way the shuttle could have been designed so it would have been successful.
- nickik 6y agoTotally disagree. With the same budget a much more successful vehicle could have been built. Simple changes like not going for hydrogen, separating main engines from Shuttle itself, not using hydrogen on the first stage, vertically mounted shuttle and so on.
- pfdietz 6y agoNo, I don't think so. The underlying problem was the Shuttle was a One Big Bite attempt at developing a very complex technology. That doesn't work. Development of something like that has to be iterative. Shuffling the deck chairs with different propellants wouldn't have made any difference.