09-18-2020, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Originally Posted by tdracer
While I agree that SLS has become more of a pork barrel program than a realistic path to future space exploration, that's not what makes me the most angry. We're spending tens of billions of dollars to recreate the heavy lift capability that had with the Saturn V and simply discarded.
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A decision made by Richard Nixon, who was elected by the voters. No one cared about that heavy lift anymore. As a kid, I was dreaming of people going to Mars, only to see them stuck in low Earth orbit. It is indeed sad.
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