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- Brassbud, on 10/27/2009, -1/+36What happens if the rocket explodes:
1960: Try try again
2010: Cancelled
The sad reality of the times. - ubernoggin, on 10/27/2009, -2/+29It's already halfway to space just sitting on the ground.
- theberlindoctor, on 10/27/2009, -1/+24I'm still rooting for the space elevator. Hopefully, this will be the platform that helps construct it.
- RealmDown, on 10/27/2009, -1/+23Yeah, 1/10th the budget they should have.
- HeDiggMe, on 10/27/2009, -1/+21Are these NASA scientists overcompensating for something?
- borez, on 10/27/2009, -0/+20They called it off for the day, first due to a ship being too close and then due to the wind being over their safe parameters.
I think that they're going to try again tomorrow though.
Been watching it all day on NASA TV:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html - rings035, on 10/27/2009, -0/+18http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/
- Chairboy, on 10/27/2009, -0/+16Tallest rocket? Saturn V was taller, as was the N-1 (Soviet moon rocket).
Just sayin'. - ChromaVita, on 10/27/2009, -1/+16This is an obvious improvement over previous designs. The taller a rocket is the shorter it has to go until it gets to space.
- MacBookForMe, on 10/27/2009, -0/+14What a slim high-tech beauty!
- surf1punk, on 10/27/2009, -1/+10...../ \
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|............| - Kikkoman, on 10/27/2009, -0/+8pfft. just wait until the Canadians launches the CN Tower.
- greentable, on 10/27/2009, -0/+7Shut the ***** up
- DISEX, on 10/27/2009, -0/+7The tallest CURRENT rocket FYI. Saturn V was 363ft making it taller obviously.
- Kloacy, on 10/27/2009, -0/+6Aye, it was postponed until tomorrow.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ar ... - lotus22, on 10/27/2009, -0/+6Tallest rocket today.
- Rouglead, on 10/27/2009, -0/+6Were you tall and could shoot flames out your ass?
- SirBruce, on 10/27/2009, -1/+7That's what she said!
- diblasio, on 10/27/2009, -0/+6Maybe if NASA made boob shaped rockets they wouldn't be struggling so much with their funding.
- Pixelante, on 10/27/2009, -4/+9Let me guess: you were an overengineered, overweight jigsaw puzzle of obsolete technology that couldn't do anything remotely useful?
- jrobbi, on 10/27/2009, -1/+6The commentary might be the most uninteresting commentary I've ever heard, they should hire Steve Phillip AMIRITE.
- inactive, on 10/27/2009, -0/+5327 feet high, $445 million
- Ghostalker, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4We should have gone with the Jupiter DIRECT program that was proposed by the NASA engineers. It reused the technology/parts from the space shuttle era, used the same facilities, didn't require laying off so many people, and could be made cheaper since it was just modifying space shuttle parts [not building a brand new rocket].
We canceled the X33 because it was "too advanced" and too expensive. Now we have Ares which is a 30yr step backwards in space travel, and non-reusable.
Pictures/Diagrams of Jupiter DIRECT:
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/DIRECT ...
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009 ... - borez, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4Over a million a foot.
- Howitzer86, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4a rocket-man in every sense of the word...
- frequentFlyer, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4That concept only applies to guys who have 4inch lifts on their hummers. Or trucks.
- drmangrum, on 10/27/2009, -1/+5Everyone knows it's not the size of the rocket, but the amount of the thrust potential that matters.
- Super6, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4Woke up at 4:40 AM to be on base and then it was scrubbed, 8 hours of my day disappeared.
Oh well, up again tomorrow. - Borgcube, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4Yes, think what they could do with the full budget.
- frequentFlyer, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Bill Gates can buy 100 of these!
- bundwallah, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Sssshhhhhhh!! No one is supposed to know.
- PolarBearFire, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Yeah, because a vagina or boob shaped rocket would have been much more practical.
- Screwy1138, on 10/27/2009, -1/+4far better deal than bailouts!
- frequentFlyer, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3This is NASA showing Xprize and the rest of the world how to Get ***** Done.
- darkNiGHTS, on 10/27/2009, -1/+4Yet they still own every other country's space program out there :).
- Mauly, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3This is how its done.... :-)
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|............| - FritoPendejo, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Aesthetics is the primary concern for NASA scientists...
- Brassbud, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2SimCity 2000?
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2just the more reason why we need to get started on that now
- borez, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2I have tomorrow off as well, so I'll be watching. Hopefully it'll get off the ground this time.
- zantos420, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2@Borgcube: Quade would already be starting the reactor by now.
- FritoPendejo, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Too bad the bottom has to get to space too.
- frequentFlyer, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Delayed, actually... because of weather.
- subliminalurge, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2How exactly do we go about getting started if the materials don't exist and the funding to develop them isn't there?
At this stage of the game space geeks whining about it on the Internet is pretty much all that can happen with the space elevator. - BigT383, on 10/28/2009, -0/+2It makes sense because eventually you have to come back down through the atmosphere. Sure, you can make it through the atmosphere in a ballistic descent, and some capsules can even generate a bit of lift by altering the angle of their descent and lowering the g-forces that the astronauts experience- I know Soyuz does this. But with plane/glider, you have a) the capability for the vehicle to be much heavier/larger, and b) the capability to land where you want to.
- localzuk, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2I have to say - let them finish the Ares I program - it may not be suited to this task, but it is a good R&D project into better rockets.
At the same time, I agree that the 'day to day trucking' stuff should be outsourced. NASA shouldn't become a simple logistics agency, driving equipment between their station and base. That's what private industries excel at.
NASA should focus on the R&D stuff. Creating new, better ways of doing these things - then outsourcing the running of their 'maintenance' operations. - robEstyles, on 10/27/2009, -1/+3Yao Ming?
- FritoPendejo, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Thanks, Wernher.
- swagv, on 10/27/2009, -1/+3My rocket is bigger than your rocket.
- meatwaddancin, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2I can't believe we've been so stupid for so long! How do we make space travel easier? Make the rocket taller so it has less distance to go!
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