/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12189427
The Saturn I completely mogs the SLS in every practical way. Anyone who thinks that the SLS's delayed development is a good thing should be shown pictures of this rocket.

>>12048174
Worked for Cluster's Last Stand.

>>11839670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0-8Pd7fK9w
The Saturn I is based. It's mere existence upstages SLS.

>We need a rocket larger than we have ever flown, but we don't have big enough tanks nor engines for it!
>"Just take the biggest engines and tanks we have and cluster them together like pencils with rubber-bands."

>The launch tower is too tall for this rocket!
>"Make a large stool for it to sit on."

>The rocket isn't big enough to carry the CSM and the lander to LEO!
>"Then don't fuel the CSM to full. It doesn't need all that fuel for testing."

>>11685368
Needs a stool.

>>11220223
Reminds me of this, sort of.

>>10956383
No. The milkstool was based. It was a simple and elegant solution to the problem of trying to fit a rocket to a launch tower that's too tall for it. If NASA of today tried to do something like that, they would waste a couple billion dollars and maybe a decade to come up with some overly complicated solution that doesn't even work well.

Hell, they can't even design a launch tower that's for the correct size of rocket right. As the SLS launch tower has it's own issues that are so bad that it's only going to be used for one launch. NASA has invented expendable launch towers.