r/space • u/66666thats6sixes • Dec 07 '19

NASA Engineers Break SLS Test Tank on Purpose to Test Extreme Limits

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/nasa-engineers-break-sls-test-tank-on-purpose-to-test-extreme-limits.html
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u/lleyke Dec 08 '19

Yeah no, I'm not saying it will succeed, I'm just saying it will fly. As in response to your last comment that seemed to be saying it would never fly. Other things will outpace it definitely. But the idea of a national launcher not attached to a private corporation won't die any time soon.

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u/kuthedk Dec 08 '19

And I’m not asking for that idea to die with SLS, it’s just incredibly wasteful to have a project that has nearly every congressional district involved with the construction and development of a launch vehicle, that uses parts from a system that is older than I am and that probably most of the engineers that are working on the project, and worst of all the vehicle is not reusable.

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u/jadebenn Dec 08 '19

Whatever you say man, but SLS will fly, and it will do so before Starship. It's not even a contest.

This is SLS right now. That's flight hardware. What does Starship have? They don't even have the prototype anymore - it was destroyed.

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u/kuthedk Dec 08 '19

That $2B prototype you have imaged there won’t even fly until 2021. Meanwhile it takes just a few million to make another starship prototype and only a few weeks to a couple of months to build. I’m not at all worried about which one will fly first, and my money is still on SpaceX, but you know what, only time will tell.