SLS VS Starship: Why does SLS still exist?!

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NASA just announced the lunar landers for the Artemis program and to everyone’s surprise, SpaceX’s MASSIVE Starship is actually one of the landers NASA chose alongside Blue Origin and Dynetics.

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.

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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Seriously Tim, this series of in depth documentaries are easily the highest quality content on the internet today about space engineering.

technik
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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

lestermagnuson
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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.

bobjoatmon
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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.

danny
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Starship + Superheavy will now be known as "Starship on the cob"

Eylrid
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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.

exothermic
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Imagine the high school reunions.
10 year reunion, water tower construction.
20 year reunion, rocket scientist

richardgould-blueraven
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Anyone else here after SN10 bottle flipped itself, landed and then RUD'ed itself to glory?

BEstudent
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Can’t wait to hear “You are go for TLI” in a couple years, insane!

Tea_N_Crumpets
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It's so much more fun to have a "teacher" that is genuinely excited about their own subjects.
Thanks Tim!

derek
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Revisiting this episode after 2+ years. Great to realize what’s changed!

Crunch_dGH
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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.

FireStormOOO_
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Tim seeing starships numbers. "Eh, let's just round up to 100 million."

earthrise
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Seeing this just 4 months later is crazy, there are already 5 more starship prototypes, 2 of which have flown

Sbinott
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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.

MrZak-rfvq
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The SLS looks retro and very cool. The starship looks more modern and is also very cool

rulap
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Nasa: Rockets are very delicate pieces of engineering
SpaceX: Look at my water tower, it can fly LOL
Nasa: ....

Tremor
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disappointed by the lack of Buzz Aldrin punching a flat earther in the face footage after that statement.

jesusmora
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Watching this again after IFT 5. All 33 raptor engines flying to make almost 17 million pounds of thrust and in this video SpaceX barely had 30 even made. Unreal 🤯

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There should be an option to give a second like when re-watching this kind of videos 5 months later

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