Did you just talk shit on the shuttle and Hubble? Whaaat?
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Wait, when did NASA land a fully reusable rocket like fucking Buck Rogers?
Then do it again, but capture it with the freakin’ launch tower?
When did NASA even have a reusable rocket? Oh, the shuttle, the bastardized money pit for NSA/NRO/Air Force, that appears to have been designed to orbit a surveillance satellite chassis, which most people know as Hubble (it’s one of many, this one being used to surveil the universe, instead of the earth).
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 months ago
The shuttle was a massive and unsafe waste of space ship.
Not sure what Hubble did to catch this stray however.
essell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can I just add that “fucking Buck rogers” is an excellent phrase and all three words can mean sex and when combined they don’t.
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
Honestly "Buck fucking Rogers" is a pretty big missed opportunity
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I believe NASA could also refurbish and re-use the SRBs, but the big orange tank was expended with every flight. The Space Shuttle Main Engines are actually still in service, we have a small inventory of them and they either have been or will be flown since 2011.
But I would definitely say that the moment the Falcon Heavy’s two booster stages returned to Cape Canaveral and made synchronized powered landings was the moment 21st century space flight arrived. SpaceX is head and shoulders above what anyone else is doing with reusable rockets and spacecraft. Meanwhile Boeing is in the broom closet huffing Lysol and muttering about quarterly earnings.
Hugin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They could reuse the SRB but the cost to refurbish them was like 90% of a new one. So it wasn’t terribly useful.