Reply to post: Re: Flawed

NASA's Artemis mission finally launches after faulty Ethernet switch delayed countdown

Jellied Eel Silver badge

Re: Flawed

A successful launch next month will silence criticasters like yourself. Permanently.

Pics or it didn't happen. What did happen was a short test fire of a less than half-power booster. Or maybe around 14% of it's potential launch power, And blowing chunks out of it's launch stand, despite added shielding and supression systems. So that might require a re-design and re-build of the launch pad and a lot of delays, extra costs etc.

Meanwhile, SLS finally got off the ground successfully. Rather delayed, and rather over budget, but that's more the fault of having a launch vehicle designed by committee. Especially when that committee was mostly Congress. Hey, let's recycle those Space Shuttle bits and git back to the Mun! If instead NASA had been given the objective and budget to just put boots on the Moon again, they may have already been there via a very different looking rocket.

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