How To Hold An SLS Media Event That No One Will Attend

1. They’re trying to time things just right so that you can’t attend and ask them hard-ball questions, Keith.

   1. I agree. Looks like they are really circling the wagons on SLS/Orion

      1. Yep. When FH flies the world changes. Putting his car in solar orbit tops the social media trends…doubling the damage. Not just to SLS either, but Delta Heavy and Arian 5 as well.

         1. Hopefully Falcon Heavy’s first test flight happens in January. The anticipation is killing me.

2. This is an old trick, and not unique to media events or NASA. If there is a requirement (or expectation) for something to be public, and the people responsible don’t really want public scrutiny, they make the information “publicly available” with as little publicity as possible.

   This sort of thing showed up as a joke at the beginning of the first Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book. Certain construction plans were “on public display”, in a locked file cabinet, in the corner of a basement lavatory, with a sign on the door saying, “beware of the leopard.”

   1. The construction plans included demolishing the Earth.

      1. Strictly speaking, that was the plans to demolish Arthur Dent’s house. The demloision plans for the Earth were, in a nice parody and nearly identical language, described as being on display at the “local” planning office on Alpha Centauri.

      2. Only because a new bypass was needed. Progress, you know?

         1. I’m hoping Falcon Heavy “bypasses” SLS version 1. Similarly hoping BFR/BFS “bypasses” SLS version 2.

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