NASA finally Realized SpaceX Starship is Better Than SLS After first Catch!

NASA finally Realized SpaceX Starship is Better Than SLS After first Catch!
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NASA finally Realized SpaceX Starship is Better Than SLS After first Catch!
"Lately, Bill Nelson has made it clear, he is a stand-up guy."
This is what someone commented about NASA administrator Bill Nelson based on what he said to SpaceX after the historical Starship Flight 5.
Indeed, unlike his words during previous launches, Bill's comments this time were much more inspiring.
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"Congratulations to SpaceX on its successful booster catch and fifth Starship flight test today! As we prepare to go back to the Moon under Artemis, continued testing will prepare us for the bold missions that lie ahead -- including to the South Pole region of the Moon and then on to Mars."
As you know after every Starship test flight, Bill Nelson has often sent congratulations to SpaceX's team for their great efforts. However, unlike the previous launches, Bill's statement in Flight 5 seems to catch more of the public's eye.
NASA finally Realized SpaceX Starship is Better Than SLS After first Catch!
"Thank you for this! The American people need to know their government supports SpaceX and Elon Musk. Far too often it seems as though they're working against innovation." one commented under Bill's tweet.
Elon Musk also expressed his deep gratitude for what NASA did for the Starship's project.
"Thank you, sir! Looking forward to serving NASA in returning humanity to the Moon."
Thanks to Nasa's support, SpaceX can launch Flight 5 one month earlier than the FAA's schedule. As a funder for Starship's human landing system serving Nasa's Artemis missions, the national agency is deeply involved in the Starship's demo flights. Any delay to the rocket's test flight could further delay the important governmental project.
NASA finally Realized SpaceX Starship is Better Than SLS After first Catch!
This explains the words of Lori Glaze, acting deputy associate administrator in NASA’s exploration directorate, at an October 9 meeting of the National Academies’ Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. She said the agency was “really looking forward” to the Starship flight, adding that it could happen “as early as next week” (mid-October) based on SpaceX comments.
“We’ve all been watching SpaceX. They work a little differently from traditional industry,” she said. “We’re all keeping an eye on the progress as they continue development.”
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[nazli_ss]

I can feel the despair of all the other rocket providers when seeing what Spacex is able to do.

[mwh]

NASA should be smart! If they had any chance of getting to the moon, it won't be through Boeing! Funds should be shifted towards SpaceX!

[mybirds]

SpaceX has the data now for scaling landing from Star Hopper, to Falcon 9 boosters, to StarShip. This means they can scale vastly bigger! Once you get the control curves and such down, this becomes cookbook science.

[WalterKazban]

I have question why yes why is NASA not getting their money back or stopping give it to contractors not full filling contracts not being honored..not being done on time on budget...I wish if I had a agency to give me money if I didn't fellow a budget ...to make it house payment food insurance gas heat etc

[stephensfarms]

Yes super excited on flight #5. Sci-Fi coming to real life. Congratulations SpaceX teams.👍👍👍👍

[WatchfulHunter]

We all know Boeing and other Artimis contractors purposely underbid knowing NASA will give them all the money they want in 'cost overruns'.
NASA needs to cut off the money supply to Boeing due to breach of contract by Boeing.
Boeing has no intention of ever completing their project.
Help more small space start ups.

[jerrymhodge]

Just Awesome!!! Congratulations SpaceX!
NASA should cancel the other contracts and authorize SpaceX to do it all.

[mercerconsulting]

I could be wrong, but it seems like Bechtel is taking advantage of the cost plus contract and allocating resources inefficiently. SpaceX could probably build a tower like this in about a year at a fraction of the cost. Hey, this is just a TOWER. How hard can that be?

[OldManGibb]

NASA'S problem is they depend on all union labor and they are a purely cosmetic company. NASA couldn't build a toy rocket now days with out spending a billion on it and they still would have to scrub the launch.

[richardallison]

I am retired from working in a medium/large industrial company that did design build. I was a project manager and I can say that cost plus a percentage for profit, also known as "Time and material" is a terrible waste of money and the customer (NASA) should be doing an ongoing audit because corruption is rampant on big projects like this and big companies like Bechtel. At the least if the government put out a contract with cost plus, there should be a not to exceed figure that the contractor cannot pass. In other words the "cost plus and not to exceed" should be a figure that NASA is willing to spend and no more and NASA needs to remember they are spending our tax money. I sorta wonder why SpaceX does not need a contraption like this with Starship.... Just

[Tampon_Tim]

Bill looks like he's made of wax!

[kwichzwellbreck]

"Stand up guy" ?? /rofl ... Nelson is a "Flag in the wind" !!!

[marksown]

Supercalafragelistic🎉, Spacex 😂 great job

[ashtonmiller-zn]

also teachly boening could just stick there starliner on one ofteh super heavy boosters to get gateway uptheres in a big 50-100+ ton LEO payload at once if they need to bescue the starship heavy booster could just have a 100ton playlaod ina huge fareing and ti will beable to yeet that into LEO bacly by it self aroing to my mental mathatics of delta v of stuff. all resuewble by the way. heck thes starship superhavy booster could yeet a whole facon heavy with a whole dragonx capsule into LEO while being fully reusblae and then the faclon heavy would then yeet the daraon x capusle or probe to mars or bedonud most of the star sistem depsiding on the paylaod tonage. yes a whole falcon heavy is aronud bacly 75ish tons fully laoded with fuel wet mass total. also a super havy booster would bascly yeet 100tons into LEO but 50 tons into geo seconus orbit as well. yet agin this is my delta v mathatics of basic maths.

[XCX]

NASA should build mechazilla towers and move the rockets on Sony's to the towers🤔 ditch mobile launcher system

[sdrc]

Don’t leave space exploration up to private companies. "Private enterprise will never lead a space frontier" --Neil deGrasse Tyson

[cococalm]

Booster 12 was not caught in mid air. It was simply caught. In "Mid-AIR" suggests that Mechazilla was in the air as well which is certainly not the case.

[christopherpardell]

SLS worked exactly as planned on its first launch. It sent a capsule well beyond the moon. Starship still has not successfully done a single mission profile. At present, Starship can not lift more than itself to orbit, and SpaceX STILL does not have a final mass for the vehicle that WILL successfully be able to re-enter without massive damage. Even if a much larger version ever does manage to lift 100 tons to orbit, the current concept is for it requiring OVER TWENTY launches to refuel a SINGLE starship for a trans Lunar injection and landing.
NONE of spaceX’s lunar qualifications have been demonstrated. SLS Works just fine, Now, and can send its rated payload to the moon with a single launch.
Fanboying over spectacular test launches, each of which requires a redesign of the rocket or the launch pad, is all well and good. But the what is embarrassing NASA right now is that ALL of their lunar projects are behind schedule, INCLUDING SpaceX’s starship. Currently at least 6 years behind schedule.

[dr]

Bill Nelson is a democrat so stand-up guy. No way.

[ivangreen]

Wow mechazilla. You held that hot stiff shaft with consummate sensitivity. Feel that throbbing missile.