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Old 03-28-2019, 11:48 PM
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Agreed. Sounds great but no bucks, no Buck Rogers. If they are cutting or even keeping the NASA budget level then manned lunar missions in that kind of time frame are really about impossible.
Scott Manley recently (two weeks ago) did a video on the subject "SLS Rocket In Trouble After New White House Budget Request" (see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3pGNTIC4c ). The White House budget request cuts money for the planned SLS upgrades, without which its lunar payload capability would be marginal at best. Combined with what Vice President Pence said this week about meeting the "within five years" lunar return goal even if it means using privately developed rockets and hardware (and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine's insistence that it's time for NASA to become a customer rather than run a government airline to space), it looks like SLS is being put in position for cancellation, since cheaper alternatives are already flying or proceeding toward flight status.
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Old 03-28-2019, 11:57 PM
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I did a whole back cover of a certain rocket catalog about that 10 years ago...MLAS.
One whose citation text begins with something like, "The Moon rockets of the 21st century will use...?" :-) Orion appears to be a perfectly fine spacecraft, which could--without a huge amount of engineering to create a new adapter--fly on top of other rockets (as it already has, on a Delta IV Heavy). It's just its "official" launch vehicle, the SLS, that is such a lousy choice because of its obsolescent Shuttle-derived technology and record-high price per launch.
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