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BoeingPolitico Dumps On Saturn V

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 12, 2018

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

8 responses to “BoeingPolitico Dumps On Saturn V”

  1. ThomasLMatula says:
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    This is really sad. Boeing is taking twice as long to build a less capable rocket and they attack the Saturn V now after smearing SpaceX. What is wrong with the firm?

    Fifty years ago NASA was able to make Christmas special by sending astronauts to the Moon. This Christmas NASA may celebrate by abandoning the ISS if Russia is not able to send up a replacement Soyuz.

    Boeing, which was to provide a commercial crew capsule just keeps falling further behind. And yet they degrade a NASA and the 1960’s aerospace industry that was able to do great things, instead of producing view graphs and promises that are never fulfilled…

  2. echos of the mt's says:
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    Interesting since Boeing built the Saturn V’s 1st stage.

  3. ed2291 says:
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    Boeing’s desperate PR attempts just strengthen the argument for accelerating Space X. This is especially true given that “business as usual” has kept man from going beyond low earth orbit since 1973.

  4. Tom Mazowiesky says:
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    I think I’d be cautious about saying how bad the Saturn V was before I’d built something similar and flown it successfully (several times).

    The Saturn V performed pretty well on every manned launch that was flown with it. I believe only one major failure (failure on an S-II engine) in all those flights.

    Would also be interesting to see a comparison over the costs to develop each launch vehicle in terms of today’s equivalent dollars.

    Oh, and wasn’t Boeing prime contractor on the Saturn’s first stage? Is the writer implying that the S1-C was “rickety”?

  5. cb450sc says:
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    Perhaps next he’ll bag on the Pyramids: “A bunch of big piles of rocks built without even a finite element analysis”!

  6. Ben Russell-Gough says:
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    I think that the time has come to question if Boeing is attempting to create a HSF monopoly the way that LockMart has with fighter aircraft. If they are, they need to be slapped down and hard.

  7. PsiSquared says:
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    It seems I remember Boeing touting its own experience building rockets in an effort to show the experience it had and that the new upstart companies didn’t. It’s a curious move to deride one’s own history to pump up one’s product.