/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12422020
>risks making the public cynical about our potential in space exploration

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>>12112399
very different

>>11714138
How the FUCK did they fuck up DIRECT this much!?

>>10594995
Interesting, so the DIRECTfags got their way but it was modified by NASA and therefore made essentially useless as all their research and planning and goals were for a specific version of DIRECT and Jupiter, not the NASA modified version that threw everything out and left us with this current long-delayed SLS mess.

You may claim that things might not have been so easy if DIRECT was directly applied as originaly intended but I wager that we would have been flying our vehicles and our astronauts much sooner than with SLS had NASA not modified the Jupiter design and the DIRECT initiative.

The impression I get from all this is that the DIRECTfags were primarily concerned with retaining America's space program dignity and jobs and getting back to speed as fast as possible, while NASA was concerned with their dreams of a different more powerful rocket (SLS) and in pursuing that over a non-modified DIRECT they doomed us to this shitty situation now we're in.

They should have either opted for a new vehicle and new architecture from the start or implemented DIRECT as it was intended.

>>10473178
NASA/US would have retained its dignity

Congress wouldn't have a pork project to fund and abuse

ergo, SLS.

>>10469529
wrong, read up on Jupiter, its what we should have gotten if Congress didn't interfere in order to keep jobs in their districts

Just replace the ARES models with SLS thats basically the same outcome only even worse