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The taxpayers are being rooked right & left while they reinvent the wheel.
That's funny. Or sad, I guess.
The reinventing of the wheel, at massive taxpayer expense - that was Constellation and is now SLS. Y'know, the very program that was canceled under Obama and its ill-begotten offspring that the Senate forced though, because the pork must flow..
Northrop, Boeing, Thiokol etc. - all of the companies who'd gotten so very used to that delicious Space Shuttle money - maneuvered themselves into the Shuttle replacement, assisted of course by the biggest roadblock to US spaceflight, Senator Shelby, who considers NASA an Alabama jobs program.
They have spent billions of dollars learning that you can't just Kerbal together a rocket from the Shuttle parts bin. Want to talk accomplishments? With SpaceX launching Falcon 9s and Falcon Heavies at a fraction of the price of the traditional players, they - for all their vaunted expertise - haven't got a rocket. (And no, Ares-1X doesn't count.) Their engine technology is 70s. And their SLS masterpiece will be too expensive to fly, we're looking at cool billion per shot.
Cool CAD/CAM and renderings, though.
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I did know some guys at JPL who joined our industry (combustion related). They were really sweet guys...liberal too. Dang S. Cal. They had tans and ate pizza with pineapple too.
The JPL crew is known to be pretty much hippies. Those were the guys who refused mandatory drug testing by simply pointing out that they could find much better paying jobs in the private sector, and that finding a replaceemnt driver for the Mars Rover could turn out to be - difficult. Probably more anarchist than anything else, but they'd flip Trump the bird 7 days a week.
He wont make it to Mars. The black hole will be anxious to pull him inside until it gets a taste of that vile, creature whereupon it will eject him from the rear, hurling the bad, man orange into the sun.
Those liberals....from Silicon Valley and California and the PWN...they are making the next rockets. Seems the old line profiteers can't make them decently for a good price. But, don't worry, they will break the taxpayers trying to do so.
This is pretty much the case. ULA had no idea what was about to hit them...
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