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I had a hard time being interested in this because of how it mostly just represents the corrupt and unchecked priorities of the US government. Some of the pictu
by dotnet00 4y ago
I had a hard time being interested in this because of how it mostly just represents the corrupt and unchecked priorities of the US government. Some of the pictures were pretty, but in the end it's still a massive waste of money and NASA constantly talks about "a sustainable presence on the Moon" with Orion as if they're praying that saying it often enough will make it true.
There is no path to a sustainable presence anywhere which involves Orion flying, especially if it's flying on SLS.
- api 4y agoIt's a sustainable source of Federal tech job program subsidies for the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas. Even Arianespace in France is talking about reusable cores now, but I assume for them there's less political pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program.
- pdabbadabba 4y ago> Even Arianespace in France is talking about reusable cores now, but I assume for them there's less political pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program. Honest question: why would you assume that?
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- dotnet00 4y agoI think there's plenty of pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program as well, it's just that they're forced to channel it into a slightly more productive direction due to wanting/needing the commercial launch business. NASA/Congress could have achieved the same jobs program effect by pushing the same money towards a reusable rocket and an appropriately larger number of missions. Although perhaps that wouldn't have been as good for Alabama etc (it's a massive shame that they didn't take the SLS money to improve Alabama's ability to handle higher tech space stuff).