/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16101465

>>15690828
ENTER

>>14880726
I can't blame you, the media doing "biggest rocket ever" all the time shits me too. I wish we had of just done the Saturn MLVs.

>>14880734
The Falcon 1 was nothing special, the Falcon 9 is the best medium LV, the Falcon Heavy would be good if it had a fairing big enough for it's mass capability.
This is what they have done in 20 years, I'm not saying that's bad but it's also not as amazing as people like to act. NASA went from the X-15 to Apollo 11 in the same timeframe.

>>14674473
>Work on the N1 began in 1965
What the fuckkkkkkkkkkkk how did the Soviets procrastinate so bad?

>>14661871
Reminder that the first orbital Kerosene upper stage in the US flew after 1965 was on Falcon 1 flight 1. The US just used hypergolics, solids, or hydrogen for their upper stage. Seriously. The exception is the Titan I, which was kerosene unlike its hypergolic descendants, and it flew from 1959 to 1961
>Atlas Agena
Hypergolic
>Atlas Centaur
Hydrogen
>Saturn V
Hydrogen
>Delta family until IV
Hypergolic
>Titan II-IV
Hypergolic

>>14636109
Same anon, while it was ultimately a pork barreling project and the Saturn MLV would have been orders of magnitude better I still respect the engineers for getting something so retarded to fly.

>>14634549
The entire post-Apollo Saturn family.

>>14565635
a stretched 2-stage saturn v with shuttle-diameter solids would've absolutely happened in the 70s too if nasa went forward with their post-apollo plans too. it would've been cheap and quick to develop and it would've doubled the LEO payload.

>>12793260
The shuttle is much more controversial than Starship because it killed several great programs with the promise of cheap LEO and ended up costing more while being less capable.
t. Saturn MLV gang

>>12596081
Remember what they actually took rather than the shittle dregs you posted.
This would have made the Saturn much cheaper while putting a shitload into LEO and maintaining Lunar capability.

>>12557488

>>12440266
>the only thing that isn't CG / boilerplate is a sub orbital toy
If he gave a fuck he would have something to compete with Falcon 1 by now given Blue Origin is older than SpaceX.

>>12302944
>you will never see a world with the Saturn MLV instead of the shuttle

>>12200831
imagine if instead of shit launch cistern they went ahead and used these to fly
a 'saturn v mark ii', made far cheaper and capable of carrying much more to orbit by way of
modern production capabilities and the aid of CAD
would be so fucking kino

>>11634891
literally just cop 1 nigga in 1975 and go away

if they have the technology to cross interstellar distances, they can deflect our means of detecting aircraft

>>11551240
>they got Sea Dragon wrong
At this point, I've given up on Hollywood getting space related things right.

>>11551316
>Saturn MLV
Based. Imagine a Saturn V with the Shuttle SRBs.

This makes my Saturn-I become the Saturn-V

>>11197202
>>11197208
So we heard you liked SRBs and Apollo dawg and decided to attach SRBs to your Saturn V...