Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "The SLS is Outdated. Why Does it Exist?" video.

  1. the one thing SLS brings over SpaceX is that theoretically it can launch substantially wider payloads which is more of a constraint than people realize, and Gateway almost requires it
    60
  2. turns out cobbling a rocket together from sts technology is actually harder than just building a rocket from scratch
    3
  3. the project's primary goal was to spread NASA money across dozens of states, a mission capability achieved quite early on, getting to space is a bonus
    2
  4. slight nitpick, the STS was cancelled in 2007, obama just finished the plan and cancelled Constellation
    1
  5. Ares 1 is always funny because nasa basically forgot to check if aborting from it was even survivable, then a college student pointed out that the g-load to abort from it would kill the crew, and the parachutes would be falling down through a burning column of aluminum perchlorates which would melt them
    1
  6.  @Fireslingerpirate  they weren't rusting or rotting. NASA has had them stored near ready since the space shuttles stopped flying. They should go to museums because they each have flown to space and back dozens of times, something unique over any other engine intil the merlins.
    1