Does anyone think or know if these panels and talks will be downloadable later on anywhere?
Here's the Guardian with notes on what's presumably the same event:http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/06/nasa-curiosity-mars-press-conference-live .
Archivehttp://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/312552-1
English fella: Why SLS and not a human rated F9 Heavy?Bolden: When we looked at other systems, Atlas, Delta, etc. the number of missions required for Mars make it very difficult and decrease the possibility of success.Falcon 9 is not what we need for deep space.We are using a single vehicle, not many, many missions. Fuel depots - we're not there yet. It's not going to happen overnight and we can't wait if we want to explore.We could ask SpaceX to dev human rated F9, we could get people to do fuel depots, but we'd then not get to an asteroid by 2021 and we wouldn't get to Mars.(Ho ho, that's going to wind some people up! )
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 05/06/2013 01:26 pmEnglish fella: Why SLS and not a human rated F9 Heavy?Bolden: When we looked at other systems, Atlas, Delta, etc. the number of missions required for Mars make it very difficult and decrease the possibility of success.Falcon 9 is not what we need for deep space.We are using a single vehicle, not many, many missions. Fuel depots - we're not there yet. It's not going to happen overnight and we can't wait if we want to explore.We could ask SpaceX to dev human rated F9, we could get people to do fuel depots, but we'd then not get to an asteroid by 2021 and we wouldn't get to Mars.(Ho ho, that's going to wind some people up! )I call Bee Ess. Fuel depots and cheap launchers are the architecture that should be pursued... and if it's 2030s and we STILL don't have ISRU from either luna or asteroids, and fuel depots to hold what we harvest, we're probably not going to Mars ever.
Quote from: Lar on 05/06/2013 07:03 pmI call Bee Ess. Fuel depots and cheap launchers are the architecture that should be pursued... and if it's 2030s and we STILL don't have ISRU from either luna or asteroids, and fuel depots to hold what we harvest, we're probably not going to Mars ever.The existence of launch vehicles which can directly deliver crew to an EML point and high power solar electric tugs make depots considerably less necessary. By the 2020's we should have multiple types of both of those in operation.
I call Bee Ess. Fuel depots and cheap launchers are the architecture that should be pursued... and if it's 2030s and we STILL don't have ISRU from either luna or asteroids, and fuel depots to hold what we harvest, we're probably not going to Mars ever.