Posts by Silvergoat

Boldly going where Elon Musk will probably go before: NASA successfully tests SLS Moon rocket core stage

Not to worry. They'll go back to committee to tentatively decide whether there's a fragment of possibility that something untoward might happen and make NASA look bad. It'll be in committee for six or so years before they decide to revise the scope of the plan, give another $20 billion for development. Musk will have grandkids on Mars before NASA moves. Sad isn't it.

NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

The NASA administrator has to be snarky, the credibility of NASA is on the line. I remember how the Shuttle was the be-all and end-all of space travel. They shut everything else down. Then the twin disasters and televised dead crews. Now they're decades behind, shoveling billions towards corporations all to willing to advance space travel at a snail's pace with no skin in the game. Along comes a brash billionaire and proceeds to make multiple re-entry reusable vehicles and makes NASA look like the old age home that it's become.

When NASA catches up with SpaceX, I'll reconsider. Right now, they're a nursing home full of obstipated, ossified civil servants.