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Space Shuttle was a colossal waste of money
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:29 pm
Some good technologies came out of it but that would be the case with any system developed. NASA should have developed a much cheaper crew launch system and coupled it with the Saturn V or some other heavy launch system for the big payloads. There was no reason to send that much mass into orbit each time just so they can fly it down.
Anyways here's a shot of one of the back engines, very impressive:
Anyways here's a shot of one of the back engines, very impressive:
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Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
Thanks for your opinion. Have a nice day.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yeah, finding a way to go into space and return in the same vehicle to be reused was a terrible fricking idea...
This post was edited on 11/18/16 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:30 pm to Boudreaux35
A government funded program wastes money?
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yea, well, you're a gnome and don't know shite.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
It was a waste of life more than money. This combination of a quest for cost efficiency, along with NASA's ingrained sense of invulnerability ("Go fever") that did in 2 heroic flight crews.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
We never landed on the moon either.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
No
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:33 pm to DavidTheGnome
it paid me pretty well back in the early 80s.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:33 pm to DavidTheGnome
Talk about a severe case of Monday Morning Rocket Sciencing 
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:34 pm to MSMHater
Armchair Rocket Scientists piss Scruffy off.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
I never knew a gnome got a PhD is aerospace engineering. Tight.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:35 pm to Ace Midnight
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It was a waste of life more than money.
An insult to everything those astronauts achieved and lived for.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:
Some good technologies came out of it but that would be the case with any system developed. NASA should have developed a much cheaper crew launch system and coupled it with the Saturn V or some other heavy launch system for the big payloads. There was no reason to send that much mass into orbit each time just so they can fly it down.
In part it was, but at the time they started the space shuttle program quite a few folks thought it would be much cheaper then our previous way of doing things. It turned out to be far more expensive (and dangerous) then expected in practice however.
We did get quite a bit of good science out of using shuttle missions as a mini space station, but it would have been cheaper to simply put something like the ISS up.
It happens though. Cutting edge technology can take a long time to get right. The first few cars were much worse then horse drawn coaches after all.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:36 pm to Ace Midnight
Both parts that failed were made in Louisiana.
quote:Both the o-ring and shield foam that caused those
It was a waste of life more than money. This combination of a quest for cost efficiency, along with NASA's ingrained sense of invulnerability ("Go fever") that did in 2 heroic flight crews.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
Pretty much anything to do with space is a waste of money. We shouldn't even have space, it doesn't do anything.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:37 pm to DavidTheGnome
Hey if it wasn't for NASA we wouldn't have things like Tang, velcro and smartphone cameras. Get off your high horse!
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:38 pm to LucasP
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Pretty much anything to do with space is a waste of money. We shouldn't even have space, it doesn't do anything.
It proves that human beings have been and will always be the boss of this galaxy.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:38 pm to ell_13
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Yeah, finding a way to go into space and return in the same vehicle to be reused was a terrible fricking idea...
We could have made a much cheaper reusable vehicle. The shuttle was needlessly complex and large.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 1:39 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:bot trying to be insensitive but what made them heroic?
did in 2 heroic flight crews.
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