>The ability of NASA to ignore SpaceX

They aren't, they need SpaceX for the moon landing. The whole plan is to get the SLS to launch a crewed Orion spacecraft to the Moon, rendezvous with the lunar lander variant of Starship in Lunar orbit and use it to land.

You missed the SLS launch a few months ago? That rocket would have never taken off if it wasn't for China.

In Interstellar they literally went out of their way to remove the doppler effect from the black hole's accretion disk to "avoid confusing the audience", there's a traversable and stable wormhole, and it seems no one who worked in it there knows what a Tesseract is.

Interstellar has very little in terms of scientific accuracy, feels like a movie made by someone who just had a spark of curiosity over space and just read bits and pieces of a bunch of Wikipedia articles.

The only accurate thing in it was the original black hole model, and that they refused to use it.

Oh I'm not blaming NASA, I'm blaming Congress for just cutting the flow of money once the Moon landing was achieved.

>It was literally an orbiting space station

No, what he's saying is true. The original plan was much different and was a far more complete station, instead they made the equivalent of making a boat out of pieces of plastic.

All they did was hollow out the second stage of a Saturn V, slap some solar panels on it and call it a day. And it didn't even work well, the Solar panels couldn't extend fully, and parts of it got damaged during launch which lead to it operating way hotter than it should have.

It was an underbudgeted mess held together by ductape, built from the scraps of the cancelled Apollo 18, 19 and 20 missions.

Because the whole point was to rub it on the Soviet Union's faces. When they realized the Soviet Union couldn't get to the Moon, they just sliced the budget and stopped production of the Saturn V.

If the Soviet N1 had worked, the space race would have probably kept going.

When Musk says something about SpaceX everyone hurries to remind everyone that Musk isn't SpaceX. When SpaceX says something, people complain because of some unrelated Musk thing.

Make up your mind already, r/space.

Because if there is a lifeform that can thrive in liquid methane, we don't know anything about it. There could be life that can thrive in planets with no atmosphere for all we know, which is very, very little. Which is why scientists work with what they know, which is Earth.

Bear in mind that even if Starship didnt fly until 2027 it would still be the fastest developed super heavy lift rocket, and the first to be reusable.

If it works, it will leave the Moon just a ticket away.

Lets have patience, the reward will be worth it.

Slacktivists who care more about ideology than technological advancements.

No, it's just for almost an entire decade they handled all transport to and from the ISS.

Because that's how the human brain is wired, it works best under competition, it's simply a matter of evolution.

If the first space race hadn't ended we would have seen Moon bases a long time ago.

A rocket is simply a controlled, continuous explosion.

Deaths will lead to revisions and maybe redesigns, but it won't stop anything, it's just a risk that's inherent to the kind of propulsion we use, and the environment we are sending people to.

V formations can be aircraft prototypes. The likes of Lockheed and Boeing have been trying to get the flying wing design to work on small aircraft for decades.

The current space race is the only reason the SLS finally got off the ground.

Not like it produced much of value until a couple hundred years ago.

I swear this sub complains more about space junk than astronomers and the ones in charge of launching rockets.

Doesn't get any more detailed than the actual mission control radio and the recording from the Lunar Module's camera.

Starts at 3:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1SzgGhMKc

That channel has similar videos for Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17.

Then do it, what are we waiting to fund this mission.

No, thats what happens when you have to build a rocket to the specifications of politicians who know about space as much as a 2 year old toddler.

Would be funny if we spent all this time researching that system only for no planet in it to hold an atmosphere.

The thing is, it's the same kind of ignorance as today, people think space travel is exclusively about sending weird looking machines to space, and don't know of the technology we use all the time these days that wouldn't exist, or would be far less advanced if space exploration didn't force us to develop them.

Not to mention the money spent by NASA is negligible compared to the vast majority of government institutions. Lost count how many people think the 25 billion NASA gets every year would make a difference, when the US already spends upwards of a trillion on welfare.

Not to mention just for the sake of exploration, wish more people understood how fascinating it is that we are working towards letting humans live in places and environments that our bodies can't withstand, how interesting it is the act of overcoming our own nature.

Not much, sadly. Even during the height of the space race, when the Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, not even half of the population in the US approved of the Apollo program.

China is doing just that. If they werent the SLS would still be doing asinine tests.

Doesnt the US spend 1.5 trillion on welfare?