Spaceship Orion

[classicman]

The entire Orion, Ares, Constellation system costs something like ten times more per seat compared to existing and upcoming European, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese systems.

Blame the unions!

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Another publication demonstrates American science subverted by extremists who would promote their emotions rather than learn facts. From the Washington Post of 15 Dec 2014;

NASA's $349 million monument to its drift
That program had begun in 2004, with a call from President George W. Bush. "We will undertake extended human missions to the moon as early as 2015," Bush said then.

But its funding never matched its ambitions. The nation's ETA on the moon was repeatedly pushed back. By 2009, a study commissioned by President Obama found that - at its current budget - NASA might not get a man back to the moon until the 2030s.

A-3 was finished last June for $350 million - without any rocket to test - for no purpose. When not even half way done in 2010, Mississippi's Senators (both extreme right wing who love deficits and then blame Democrats) successfully got it saved. For the past six months, work has continued on now mothballing it. It and the entire piece of crap invented by George Jr's wackos was created on a principle that created America's massive govenment debt: "Reagan proved that deficit don't matter." Any informed American knows who said that.

Meanwhile,

It turned out that the engines required for the new Space Launch System needed a new test stand, with no vacuum involved. So NASA is renovating another stand just a short distance away from the A-3, called the B-2. That project is supposed to cost $134 million.

For another engine created by that George Jr screwup - Constellation, Orion, and Ares. Senators from Mississippi rape the American taxpayer to enrich constituents while destroying America's space program. Extremists are into their own advancement rather than the advancement of America or science.

Seven of these rocket test stands are in mothballs and without purpose.

Meanwhile Kennedy's Man on the Moon project came in under budget. But then it was proposed by someone who learned facts rather than promote their emotions, political rhetoric, and contempt for science.

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Best science is done by robots. Making humans in space mostly unnecessary. Only 8% of NASA's budget (for unmanned platforms) does almost all the science.

CBS on 11 May 2015 describes another science tool: Air Force set to launch another mysterious X-37B space plane mission

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Originally Posted by classicman

Blame the unions!

You spelled onion wrong.