2017 is not human rated. Still early 2020s for a human rated SLS (wow........that's pants).I would love to have more money for commercial crew to help them be a success, but it's not there.
Rep on Orion.Bolden: Orion will be ready 2017-2020
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 07/12/2011 03:57 pm2017 is not human rated. Still early 2020s for a human rated SLS (wow........that's pants).I would love to have more money for commercial crew to help them be a success, but it's not there.WTF? How the hell does it take 9 years to make a human rated booster out of components that are already human rated?!?!They might as well just cancel SLS, and divert all funds into an evolved F9H. Even if it's not cheaper, it'll probably be quicker.Congress tell NASA that they want SLS and commercial crew, then don't provide enough funding for either. Totally FUBAR.
Honestly this whole thing is a huge joke IMO. Congress needs to DO SOMETHING to force NASA to follow the law which states: SLS ready for MANNED FLIGHTS by 2016 and MPCV same. Not 2017 or 2020, 2016 ...
Between that and 2017 for a first SLS test flight, I think all Congress needs to do is disband NASA and hire everybody back for a new agency minus the previous top-level administration and voila, we'd reduce those dates by a couple years.
Quote from: Space Pete on 07/12/2011 04:05 pmQuote from: Chris Bergin on 07/12/2011 03:57 pm2017 is not human rated. Still early 2020s for a human rated SLS (wow........that's pants).I would love to have more money for commercial crew to help them be a success, but it's not there.WTF? How the hell does it take 9 years to make a human rated booster out of components that are already human rated?!?!They might as well just cancel SLS, and divert all funds into an evolved F9H. Even if it's not cheaper, it'll probably be quicker.Congress tell NASA that they want SLS and commercial crew, then don't provide enough funding for either. Totally FUBAR. Its coming from the white house. That's where this is coming from, it doesn't take that long we were on track until July 8th got delayed because of the WH using OMB as a blocking piece.Its become clear to me this is not going to get solved until Obama is gone.