Moon Rocket Gets Shout Out at RNC

1. Interesting that he didnt give a shout out to the new moonrocket he has thousands of people working on today rather than the moonrocket from 50 years ago.

   1. I don’t think it is of all that much note.

      We’re in the midst of the 47th anniversary of Apollo 11’s history-making mission. Conventions afford states the opportunity to brag about their contributions to the national story in such ways. You can only tack on so much content to a shout-out…

2. Its pretty simple: The Saturn V made history and is the gold standard of launch vehicles. The SLS hasn’t flown.

3. Talking about the past avoids making commitments to a future.

   Bragging about past performance is easy. Demonstrating future competence? That’s a lot harder to sell.

   1. In the context of introducing delegate counts at a political convention? Puh-lease.

   2. So by that logic, there shouldn’t be any mention or celebration of the moon landing 47 years ago?

      1. There was. He mentioned the rocket, connected intimately to his own state, that launched the mission. The speaking platform he was on does not lend itself to long disquisitions about…much at all.

         1. [HUMOR]
            What, in space flight, have they done for us… lately?
            [/HUMOR]

      2. There’s a difference between celebrating and gloating; It may not be immediately obvious to the eye, but there is one.

         Happy Moon Day, y’all!

         Now if only there were new footprints being added on a continuing basis…

   3. I’d say achievement, rather than competence. The Marshall SFC crew is obviously highly competent. Whether or not they achieve anything has more to do with politics, funding, and direction than it has to do with their abilities.

      Provide them with political support, funding, a goal, and a timeline and they’ll do anything we ask of them. Of that I have zero doubt.

      The core strategy of SpaceX is to tie their political support to the fact that they save the gov’t money. This also reduces the need for funding. Politicians who fail to take obvious opportunities to save money do so at their peril.

      The room for maneuver that SpaceX creates through the manipulation of these variables means that their highly-competent group of people are positioned to achieve more than the equally-highly-compentent people at MSFC.

      1. Unfortunately, any #s saved are burned up in the Middle East black hole..

4. Sen. Sessions brought home the bacon and gets to brag about it. “There’s no Jack S. like our Jack S.”

5. I wish he would have added that he is a socialist above the Karman line and voted against commercial crew.

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