Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 225 65.8%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 42 12.3%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 75 21.9%
  • Total voters
    342
#5,861
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Sadly the ship spun out of control and broke up. How many ships can SpaceX keep losing before some serious questions are raised? It seems like they keep going backwards with each launch.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Sadly the ship spun out of control and broke up. How many ships can SpaceX keep losing before some serious questions are raised? It seems like they keep going backwards with each launch.
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How many Atlas and Redstone did we blow up before finally getting Shepard and Glenn into space?

Any new system is going to go through trials though I do think they need to slow down just a tad to figure out what's going wrong.
 
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Grand Vol said:
How many Atlas and Redstone did we blow up before finally getting Shepard and Glenn into space?

Any new system is going to go through trials though I do think they need to slow down just a tad to figure out what's going wrong.
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Yep, Starship is a completely different animal than any "rocket" system that has ever been built.

SpaceX however is now 3 for 3 in attempts at catching the booster.
 
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These recent failures were the first Block 2 Starships, so I wonder if one of the changes is to blame. Or perhaps some manufacturing issue given the changes in the factory recently. Lots of possibilities.

The FAA is going to slow them down now
 
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twoffo said:
These recent failures were the first Block 2 Starships, so I wonder if one of the changes is to blame. Or perhaps some manufacturing issue given the changes in the factory recently. Lots of possibilities.

The FAA is going to slow them down now
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This was I think the last flight of the Block 1 Booster.

I haven't got around to watching the launch but from what I gather this appears to be a different issue than Flight 7.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
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Yikes, if this was the same issue from their last lander.

It appears to me the location was a bit rocky/cratered area and the landing pads aren't big enough.
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Target landing software... or a combination of that and the landing gear.

Bet it isn't discriminating rocks like it should and it goes ass over head when it lands.
 
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