02-09-2019, 03:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Needville and Shiner, TX
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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.
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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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