http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2030379
Developing a rocket that can re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land instead of splash down.
Developing a rocket that can re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land instead of splash down.
That seems like a gigantic waste of weight, fuel, money, and most importantly development time. Just go pick the damn thing up in the ocean.
That seems like a gigantic waste of weight, fuel, money, and most importantly development time. Just go pick the damn thing up in the ocean.
Cant help but think our only hope of continuing in space right now on a reasonable time scale is to commercialize it and let industry drive it.
Proud of JPL for curiosity, but we need more, and faster.
It's the recovery efforts in the ocean that actually cost more money. When you consider the cost of deployment vessels, crew costs, and fuel, along with cleanup associated with a rocket that was submersed in salt water for a few days, a land based return is a bit more financially feasible, in theory.
Taking a boat out to grab a hunk of metal with a GPS on it? More expensive? I'd need to see the numbers on that.
Imagine where we could be if the TARP bailout money went to NASA tho.
Imagine where we could be if the TARP bailout money went to NASA tho.
when you send a carrier group to do it, yep.
Wouldn't matter. Our best and brightest are all wasting their time making dick pills and stupid nonsense like that.
be mired in bureaucracy and not get anything done since theres no incentive to?
Yeah, like that time we didn't go to the moon, rite?!!?
see below video. That was a different time. There was enormous incentive then
That's simply not true. All we need are aspirations to drive people.
And how do you think that came to be?
a combination of novelty, culture, and space race with the soviets