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    Default Artemis Moon Rocket Launches Tomorrow

    Giant rocket launch tomorrow morning! Unmanned mission to orbit the moon. It is supposed to be as loud as 10,000 jet engines. This rocket is larger than the Saturn V that took man to the moon.

    https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

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    How many years is this project behind schedule?
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    I don't think it's larger than a Saturn V, but does have more thrust.
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    ----------------Saturn----------Art
    Propulsion--- 3 stages------ 2 stages
    Height ----- 363 feet------- 212 feet
    Diameter --- 33 feet------ 27.6 feet
    Weight ---- 6.5 million lbs.------ 5.75 million lbs.
    Thrust ----- 7.5 million lbs. ------ 8.8 million lbs.


    So smaller over all - but the crew module is bigger with longer duration.
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    Quote Originally Posted by electronman1729 View Post
    How many years is this project behind schedule?
    50 as of February (Feb 1972 was when Apollo 18 was supposed to launch).
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    Quote Originally Posted by bradbn4 View Post

    ----------------Saturn----------Art
    Propulsion--- 3 stages------ 2 stages
    Height ----- 363 feet------- 212 feet
    Diameter --- 33 feet------ 27.6 feet
    Weight ---- 6.5 million lbs.------ 5.75 million lbs.
    Thrust ----- 7.5 million lbs. ------ 8.8 million lbs.
    Smaller, lighter but with more than a million pounds more thrust.

    No matter which way you spin it, that's a win.

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    It's also interesting to see NASA again involved in a space race. But this time instead of the ruskies, they're racing against Elon.

    And like all governments, they'll cheat if they need to by having the FAA keep Elon's tests on the ground.

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    Quote Originally Posted by O2HeN2 View Post
    Smaller, lighter but with more than a million pounds more thrust.

    No matter which way you spin it, that's a win.

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    I would hope there would be some significant performance improvements over half a century of development.

    The Saturn used what was essentially just scale-up of early proven engine designs to get something functional before Kennedy's deadline and not decades later.

    We will see soon if all that NASA and contractor computing and design modeling power devoted to Artemis was up to snuff.
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    Almost a year late and over 90 Billion in cost, so far to not even make it to the mark 50 years old. Color me unimpressed.
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