NASA Unveils new rocket

[MANT!]

Perhaps, but if it's flown, the first flight likely will be painted..(shuttle did the same thing back in '81)...

and the "Evolved" version looks far moe like a Saturn V than it's initial version...and it's larger than the Saturn V...

I do think the initial version will be built, after all there's no more Space Shuttle to eat up all the money..

Yeah, the Senate Launch System is perfectly capable of eating up all that money all by itself.

And if that's the case, it'll be built..

 

[throwback]

I am also very doubtful this thing will built. Our world is heading into the Greatest Depression. Space exploration is an expensive hobby in the best of times, but in the midst of a major economic catastrophe, it is a luxury.

 

[Dukhat]

Somebody please wake me up when pictures of an actual man-rated rocket with crewed capsule on top are posted, instead of an artist's conception of a man-rated rocket. Until I see that, it doesn't exist.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Apollo_17_The_Last_Moon_Shot_Edit1.jpg

OK, let me rephrase that: Wake me up when pictures of a new man-rated rocket with crewed capsule on top are posted. (And that excludes any Russian or Chinese rockets...I'm strictly talking American here )

 

[Yminale]

Doesn't change the fact that it looks like a Saturn V.

Well that's because NASA has become a PR whore (*cough* Arsenic based life *cough*). Honestly they must think Americans are stupid, if they think sentimentality is going to spare them from criticism.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Perhaps, but if it's flown, the first flight likely will be painted..(shuttle did the same thing back in '81)...

and the "Evolved" version looks far moe like a Saturn V than it's initial version...and it's larger than the Saturn V...

I do think the initial version will be built, after all there's no more Space Shuttle to eat up all the money..

Yeah, the Senate Launch System is perfectly capable of eating up all that money all by itself.

And if that's the case, it'll be built..

... though it remains to be seen if it will actually launch.