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Old 02-09-2019, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Neal Miller
This is a very interesting topic. the last posts is probably the closest to the truth.
the Space Shuttle program made a lot of the contractors, corporate officers , executives and politicians rich.

I guess that after all of the engineering and and testing (R&D) had been done for Apollo, supplying the hardware was not that profitable. So the Space Shuttle was the new cash cow.


Yep, and the "shuttle mafia" is the gift that just keeps on taking...

How we're stuck with "shuttle derived" SLS when NASA's own RAC-2 studies proved a serially staged three stage kerolox first stage/hydrogen upper stages rocket (modern version of Saturn V) is actually the lowest recurring cost and most flexible way to do a Moon/Mars HLV rocket...

Politics trumps engineering!

Later! OL J R
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