SLS VS Starship: Why does SLS still exist?!
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Published 2020-04-30
And this is bringing up a lot of questions, some of which we’ll answer in my next video, “Should NASA just cancel SLS and use Starship and / or other commercial launchers for Artemis?”. But today I think we need to settle a lot of debates here first about these two rockets and now more than ever, it’s time we truly pit them head to head.
Part II - Artemis VS Apollo HERE - • Can Starship Help Make The Artemis Pr...
LINKS:
00:00 - Intro
05:50 - What Makes a Vehicle a Super Heavy Lift Launcher
09:00 - The History of SLS and Orion
18:05 - The Progress and Inventory of SLS/Orion and Starship
27:30 - The Philosophies of Starship and SLS
34:55 - Starship VS SLS
41:50 - Conclusion
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All Comments (21)
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I just turned 60. I witnessed the moon landing when I was 8 years old, you young people will witness unbelievable things, I envy you
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Starship + Superheavy will now be known as "Starship on the cob"
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Anyone else here after SN10 bottle flipped itself, landed and then RUD'ed itself to glory?
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The thing I still find most amazing is, well, the Saturn V used literally visible magnets as it's memory for the guidance system programming. This memory was a wire grid sewn BY HAND with iron rings as memory bits. The fact that the Saturn V and lunar module running on magnetic core memory, with only a few kilobits of memory, made it to the moon is astounding. That is still being compared to modern completely digital guidance systems.
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My father was a NASA engineer (Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle at E&D [Engineering and Development]) and frequently complained about how everything was structured to cost the most and fund contractors at the expense of progress.
Thanks for the boiled down concentrate on this issue. -
Seriously Tim, this series of in depth documentaries are easily the highest quality content on the internet today about space engineering.
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Revisiting this episode after 2+ years. Great to realize what’s changed!
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Are you an everyday astronaut at this point? You’re a human encyclopedia of knowledge in rocket and space exploration technology. Not everybody has the ability to do what you do and deliver the information as well as you do.
Dude, it’s impressive. Keep up the great work. -
Imagine the high school reunions.
10 year reunion, water tower construction.
20 year reunion, rocket scientist -
I like that framing: the hardest part of SLS isn't designing a rocket that works, it's designing a rocket that politics can't kill.
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20:55 talking about "Dear Moon." Oh how far we've come, so excited for you Tim!
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Here to see how well this aged. Given what appears to be NASA making the award today to SpaceX
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"As they stand today, SLS is big, really big! But Starship will be...huge!"
This is the science I can understand. Great work, quality is amazing at every level. -
Tim seeing starships numbers. "Eh, let's just round up to 100 million."
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Well I can certainly tell you which one launched first.
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I'm actually glad the NASA Boeing Artemis SLS project and Orion Spacecraft are under development! Hope to see them fly soon! As you once said, I cheer them all on!
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Can’t wait to hear “You are go for TLI” in a couple years, insane!
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It's so much more fun to have a "teacher" that is genuinely excited about their own subjects.
Thanks Tim! -
And now 10months later they have:
Flown and landed sn5 (150meters)
Flown and landed sn6(150meters)
Presure Tested sn7
Flown and crashed sn8(12.5km)
Flown and crashed sn9(12.5km)
Flown and landed sn10(12.5km)
Blew up sn10 after landing because why not(not really)
Now thats progress -
Two years later , an obervation.
Tim has deserved his flight on Dear Moon more than any body else, His dedication to accuracy, understanding, and presentation is.... like no other , unique. ... !
