Recent content by rmurray

The first episode was slightly better than marginal. Stewart definitely can still pull it off so I am hopefully that things will develop. If things stay on track we should be in for a good series. Anything is better than Discovery at this point. I cancelled my CBS all access because of season 2...

"Additionally, the Space Shuttles were only partially reusable, which is an unsustainable design feature when the aim is to make space travel less expensive. " How is the SLS different in this regard? At least the Shuttle was rebuildable. The SLS is expendable except for maybe the SRB's. Why are...

Have you ever heard necessity is the mother of invention? What makes you think that Mars does not posses all of the same ore that Earth does? Why is it so outrageous that we might be able to mine it and process it? We have that tech right now. Nobody is planning on showing up to Mars before...

I do not think the launch conditions have any effect on this issue. The problem was with the second stage not the booster.