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> By such logic, we should have wished the other shuttles had blown up in the 90s too. Yes. If Shuttle failed faster NASA would be less motivated to make inten
by Veedrac 4y ago
> By such logic, we should have wished the other shuttles had blown up in the 90s too.
Yes. If Shuttle failed faster NASA would be less motivated to make intentionally terrible decisions.
The greatest irony of these defenses is perhaps that if Starship fails, then SLS actually can't get to the moon short of backups that haven't even been decided yet never mind built, whereas if SLS fails you can still just run the rest of the components as-is and switch out SLS/Orion for two pretty much stock Crew Dragon flights.
- unethical_ban 4y ago>if Starship fails, then SLS actually can't get to the moon How does the potential failure of Starship impact the success or failure of SLS?
- natch 4y agoSLS is relying on Starship to do the last mile (not literally just a mile, but the actual moon landing) which btw, to revive an old phrase, is kinda “what separates the men from the boys.” So there’s that.