Comments by "Wolfvale" (@wolfvale7863) on "The Big Problem with NASA's Monster SLS Rocket" video.

  1. If they get a hundred tonnes to LEO, pray tell what is preventing them from taking that same 100 tonnes to the moon?
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  2. The cost of a single SLS and Orion launch is 4.1 billion. The video made no claim that was the trip to the moon cost. Even so at $2 million a fillup.. starship could refuel 2000 times. Surely that is enough fuel for a couple hundred trips to the moon at least. You are right it is crazy to compare SLS costs with Starship. It would be crazy to keep SLS going.
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  3. It was 70,000 jobs and that works out to $51 thousand/job. $4 billion/launch should have stopped this whole process right then. If it was their own money it would have.
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  4. Let's employ 70,000 people to build an already obsolete rocket and call it a "success". Instead of a waste of time and taxpayers money. What is going to happen to those jobs when the project is scrapped Mr politician? Your failure Mr. politician is not realizing the real and immense potential of off world everything! Mining, manufacturing, power generation, biomedical and science research.
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  5.  @scibust  you confuse promises with predictions and estimates.
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  6. I hope the next generation of politicians has a better understanding of everything. It is frustrating to watching them make decisions on technology.
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  7.  @CountArtha  Has there ever been a system of goverment that doesn't screw over the taxpayer? I doubt it. I am starting to wonder about their usefulness to average people. The mess is our fault too. Human habits are difficult to change. That is why we have to start moving our dirty habits off planet and let it heal. Expensive rocket, tiny payload how did this get green lit?
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  8. There will be a fire at the facility or an explosion on the pad and the announcement "that due to design difficulties and substantial cost overruns NASA has decided to end the SLS program." It is cheaper to scrap it than fly it and that is what they will do.
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  9. New Glenn cannot achieve orbit.
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  10. Why? If you say SLS is still relevant then we should still be flying Apollos. Same technology. Why did NASA develop the "reusable" space shuttle? Why did the rules of NASA's X prize state that the winner had to take 3 passengers to LEO and return them to earth, twice within 2 weeks? Why don't airlines throw jets away after only one use?
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  11. That maybe NASA's purpose. It is NOT the purpose of the SLS. Which has been a failure since it started.
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