Hopefully, in a few years we will figure out that hydrogen rockets can not reliably launch on time and we'll switch to less leaky fuels. Then maybe we won't need to pull 40 year old engines out of museums to dump in the ocean.

I'm all for human spaceflight, but the Senate Launch System seems the best argument for shutting down human spaceflight programs.

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_moof 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh, don't worry, we did figure that out. What we haven't figured out yet is how to stop Congress from involving themselves in engineering decisions.

	▲	dotancohen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, we should have figured that out with the STS. That's what the STS was for - figuring out what technologies made for inexpensive, rapid spaceflight and which technologies don't. Then the senate mandates the new rocket to use specifically the most expensive, problematic, least reliable technology. Completely designed to fail. Have such hopes for the Starship.