The Ultimate Boosted Motor

[Xfirez51]

3.6 million pounds of thrust.

http://t.space.com/all/28795-giant-solid-rocket-booster-nasa-test#1

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[SHARKBITEATTACK]

Good stuff! I love space exploration. Looks like this booster is part of what will be the biggest and baddest rocket since the Saturn V.

 

[hj16]

Glorious. The more NASA the better.

 

[Prevent]

They really don't get much money for a budget.... didn't people want to cut NASA's budget by like half or more and send it to "schools, local government" I'm not sure on the specifics but I could swear NASA is the reason for many ground breaking discoveries that affected everyday life.

For Fiscal Year 2015, NASA received an appropriation of US$18.01 billion from Congress—$549 million more than requested and approximately $350 million more that the 2014

basically 1% of the budget is appropriated to NASA

 

[Xfirez51]

The effects of John Kennedy's Moon Shot are still rippling through our culture today. The ROI. For the money we have spent on Space is nearly immeasurable.
And yet the funding levels since the 70's has been progressively worse. I can't imagine a better investment for our country, our economy, and the world.

This is a crime for the greatest country on Earth.

 

[Spivitz]

Warp speed!

 

[SHARKBITEATTACK]

I'm actually really looking forward to the coming decades of space travel especially now with China and SpaceX in the game. Should fuel some competition. But damn I could only imagine how exciting it must have been to have lived through the space race between US and USSR and to have watched the moon landing

 

[Xfirez51]

It was all very new and stuff of science fiction. However, science fiction in the 50's was more fantasy. Today, it's very realistic and imagineable. I don't think that today we would be "surprised" by most anything because we have already imagined it.
In the 50's, as computers got more powerful, they would have gotten enormous and only used by a few. Didn't turn out that way.
In 2019, it will have been a half-century since man first set foot on an extraterrestrial body.
Sputnik changed the trajectory of the world. The U.S. went into a crash course of science and engineering to catch up w the Soviets. I hope that something like that happens again and does away w the trend towards stupidity and ignorance and disdain of science.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Wonder how hot the surrounding rocks got that weren't directly behind the rocket. They looked like they were cooking pretty good.