Why not just simply cancel HSF at NASA and focus on robotic exploration ?If there is a market, private sector does HSF. If not, no HSF.
Quote from: hektor on 01/10/2012 03:47 pmWhy not just simply cancel HSF at NASA and focus on robotic exploration ?If there is a market, private sector does HSF. If not, no HSF.Why not just simply cancel robotic HSF at NASA and focus on human exploration?If there is a market, private sector does robotic. If not, no robotic space flight.
Why not just simply cancel robotic HSF at NASA ?
Quote from: OV-106 on 01/10/2012 04:00 pmWhy not just simply cancel robotic HSF at NASA ?Yeah, those robonauts aren't worth it, and they're kind of creepy besides!
Quote from: MATTBLAK on 01/07/2012 11:12 amSome people thought that once Shuttle was gone, most of the money spent on it would go into new technologies, new vehicles, new ventures... Instead; what happened? NASA got a swift $1.6 billion dollar budget cut, coming mostly from operations funding - most of which was the Shuttle budget. With nothing to replace the Shuttle short-term, the swift budget cut was more like a swift kick in the family jewels.Cut SLS funding? You wont get it back. If SLS disappears (I hope not) then ask/help Elon Musk to develop his new, big Merlin 2 engine for Falcon X. Or help Elon make enough Merlin 1D engines so he can build lots of Falcon Heavies or cluster 5x Falcon 9 stages to make a Falcon Heavy+Plus (45 engines - 6.3 million pounds thrust at liftoff) and get the cryogenic Raptor upper stage engine up and running. Such a booster could conceivably throw nearly 40 metric tons towards Mars.... Good post. And besides, it's the law, voted in by over 2/3s of the lawmakers.
Some people thought that once Shuttle was gone, most of the money spent on it would go into new technologies, new vehicles, new ventures... Instead; what happened? NASA got a swift $1.6 billion dollar budget cut, coming mostly from operations funding - most of which was the Shuttle budget. With nothing to replace the Shuttle short-term, the swift budget cut was more like a swift kick in the family jewels.Cut SLS funding? You wont get it back. If SLS disappears (I hope not) then ask/help Elon Musk to develop his new, big Merlin 2 engine for Falcon X. Or help Elon make enough Merlin 1D engines so he can build lots of Falcon Heavies or cluster 5x Falcon 9 stages to make a Falcon Heavy+Plus (45 engines - 6.3 million pounds thrust at liftoff) and get the cryogenic Raptor upper stage engine up and running. Such a booster could conceivably throw nearly 40 metric tons towards Mars....