Mar 132020
NASA’s SLS Moon rocket is 2 years behind and billions over budget, internal report finds
Rocket surgery is hard. But for frak’s sake, it’s not *that* hard. NASA oversaw the development of the rough equivalent of the SLS in the form of the Saturn V fifty-five friggen’ years ago, on a shorter timescale and I believe at lower cost… and that was starting with prit near *nothing.* SpaceX has spent far less and achieved far more, and despite a lot of setbacks lately, I still wouldn’t put it past SpaceX to get an SLS-beater into the air before SLS.
I wonder what SpaceX could do with two billion dollars and two years. Hell, I wonder what *I* could do with that.
Hmm.
Who would I talk to about getting estimates for a mild steel circular plate twenty meters or so in diameter?