the sychronization on spacex boostback and landings are insane

umm, I believe nasa has the SLS in development

but they do not have human-rated launch vehicles in service no

NASA pays roscosmos to get astronauts to the iSS

ISS*

using soyuz

parabola
[pəˈrabələ]
NOUN

a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity ideally follows a curve of this shape.

flat

is atlas V still in service?

Yo is that a roller coaster

Why does it have the maths around it

I think nasa used to operate it

but now just ula

my brain hurts

too much numbers

Obviously NASA just hires contractors to build its rockets, so you never get a vehicle built by nasa entirely by itself

@Mee6 we have some unfinished business

show yourself coward

NASA does develop and construct these rockets, but its in coordination with private companies

so I guess payloads would be built purely by nasa

you selfish twats

yeah and boeing

@R.Chizza I have a question.

!mute @abrag imbecile

in that Chicago photo you can see that you can't see the lowest couple hundred feet of the buildings

if there was no curvature then all of it should be visible

something like the space shuttle was researched, developed, and constructed primarily by NASA with the help of certain private contractors, and used only by NASA

meanwhile, something like the Falcon 9 is completely privately developed

it's just not economically feasbile

feasible*

for NASA to use their limited budget developing new rockets that they can't make money off of

plus government restrictions can shoot down projects with billions already spent on them

@R.Chizza What percentage of the Earth is water?
Image: agci.org
In simplest terms, water makes up about 71% of the Earth’s surface, while the other 29% consists of continents and islands.

or not restriction, but politics

look at the x-33 venture star

really great video by Curious Droid about it on youtube, basically NASA was almost completely done developing and constructing an SSTO using a revolutionary aerospike and a lifting body

they had some issues with composite fuel tanks, which they eventually solved, but congress still cancelled it even after they fixed it

really annoying to see an organization with a relatively limited budget on the verge of making another breakthrough only to have politics ruin it

yeah but delta clipper was only 1/3 size and