https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/flexible-path-flim-flam-revised Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:24:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/flexible-path-flim-flam-revised#comment-154143 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:24:04 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4858#comment-154143 260 successful firings row prove you wrong Anitha. That is the equivalent of over 500 Saturn V engines. There is nothing on earth more powerful and ready to go right now. Calling SRB’s unsafe is just not true.

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/flexible-path-flim-flam-revised#comment-154091 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:33:33 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4858#comment-154091 The epic smoke of the Shuttle was also the epic fail of the Shuttle. Its cause by Solid rocket borsetos SRB’s. Oversized Estes model rocket engines and unsophisticated. Solid fuel explodes about 2% of the time because of air bubbles in production. One of the reasons Werner Von Braun left NASA was that he was against using solid fuel with manned rockets. SRB’s cannot be turned off once started. After the Challenger accident, it turned out that Werner Von Braun was right.

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