/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15687323
Fuck public awareness, it was their apathy that helped kill off the Apollo program and lead to decades of wasted NASA 'outreach' that went nowhere. Nobody, especially governments and SpaceX should give a FUCK what dumb normies in the street think about rocketry

>>15651725
The X-15 managed to go 50% higher and almost 2x faster, in 1963

>>15537880
if it makes you feel better

>>15470048
all tanks to Ubermensch engineers from Europe. SLS is a typical American rocket for comparison

Tfw Elon's shitposting his feed again

>>15419565
Tfw hydroshit actually cost us 40 fucking years of progress. Methalox is indeed the true path

>>15414284
you sound like an undercover mod

>>15259520
>>15259521
>UK wants to save money
>USA offers to use scout rockets free of charge
>Catch is the UK must completely destroy its rocket facility's
>UK does so
>USA pulls out of the deal
American shuttle disasters BEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Do it again Foam Blocks and O-rings.

Was it worth it? Even his own daughter is a “rockets are cool but we need to focus on our planet” acad*mic

>>14784427
based

>von braun future proofing still working for new projects
Based.

Documentary of early pre-NASA army rocket development including good ol' von braun on NASA TV.

>all these aborts
Multi-stage rockets were a mistake.

>>11718338
>Failed to steal landing concept
>Failed to steal 39A
>Failed to get into orbit
>Failed to get humans above the karman line
If he isn't seething then it pretty much confirms he's a virtue signalling scumbag, which wouldn't surprise me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPYYw8Qcy-o
>we made a study during Apollo on how to get to mars
>we would build two interplanetary spaceships in LEO from modularized parts from the shuttle
>these ships would have a nuclear rocket engine that NASA has already developed with EEC using a 5000 degree reactor heating hydrogen through an expansion nozzle
>7 month coasting period to martian orbit
>chemical powered LEM onboard would land on mars
>ships would return and remain in earth orbit for further use and use shuttles to deliver crew and new LEMs for further expeditions
>costs would be the same as Apollo and would be for upto 12 people instead of 3, including doctors and cook
AHHHHHHHHH... they fucking had mars system setup in the 70s and threw it in the garbage so people could gorge on the welfare state.. FOR FUCKS SAKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIDFx74aSY
Even von Braun knew fuel depots, reusable crew shuttles and orbital stations were a necessity for reliable moon travel and beyond...