SLS/Orion Progress Report Video
NASA Exploration Systems Division Quarterly Report #3 2013 (Video)
According to NASA “NASA’s Orion, Space Launch System and Ground Systems Development and Operations programs continued to make progress towards sending humans beyond Earth’s orbit during the past quarter.” This video has lots of computer animations and video of how SLS and other systems are being designed and built.
I tried playing the video 3 times on my cheap ATT go phone and it would only play the introduction then crash. After that I googed for more news and I found this. http://www.spacenews.com/ar…
4th time got to 2 min. and 45 sec. before crash.
This was a nice vid and showed progress that I was surprised by…reading Nasawatch and comments you would think SLS/Orion was some joke, but clearly not.
Maybe with enough videos there will be no need to ever finish or fly a real vehicle. We will need another 30 or 40 videos before we see something real in orbit.
SLS/Orion is being built. It’s not possible to spend a third of the NASA budget year after year without something appearing eventually. Whether it will serve any practical purpose is the real question.
Does anyone know why Avcoat was selected over PICA-X?
From what I remember, the story was that it had something to do with the desired diameter of the heat shield….
Wow, look at all the hardware they’re building.
I wonder where they’re going with it.
The BANK!!!!!!!
I did not notice “lots of computer animations”. It seemed like a rather large portion of real footage to me.
You guys are really charming. If the drip, drip, drip of money keeps flowing NASA will build a very capable and expandable vehicle which the country can use for BEO exploration for the foreseeable future. Before you guys draw breath to retort, “but there’s no money for landers, fuel depots, cruise-stage habitats, etc.”, I have to say that I agree with you, but that is the fault of our short sighted political class, and will not be fixed by some gauzy vision of buckaroo capitalism. We will successfully explore the solar system when the government decides to give it the importance and priority to space exploration that it merits for the future of the country, and not before. Robert Heinlein once said, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. I suspect she has many lessons to teach us if we’re going to test it on the cheap. Our time and energy could be spent more productively convincing our fellow citizens, and through them the political class, that the systematic exploration of space is key to the long-term interest of the nation, and should be funded appropriately.
Your gullibility is charming, assuming you’re not outright shilling for this thing. The main thing this vehicle will be capable of is destroying wealth. For space, it will accomplish very little.