| > rockets are like that: they don't care what they are pushing or in which direction That is just incorrect. Fuel tank design and arrangement, for example, is full of internal mass dynamics. > would be politically complicated for NASA Let me repeat this again: Falcon Heavy cannot carry Orion. There is no complication here. NASA and SpaceX collaborate heavily. NASA doesn't build rockets, they're administrators. If SpaceX could be used, they would have used it (as they did with Dragon and so many other projects). Stop trying come up with makeshift excuses for the lack of technical background you failed to provide. > Both Challenger and Columbia were lost because people forgot they were experimental vehicles operating under conditions we don't fully understand. Irrelevant attempt at misdirection. This has nothing to do with whether Falcon Heavy can or cannot test Artemis shields. --- You're desperately trying to pivot the discussion from a technical one (in which you demonstrated lack of basic knowledge about several important topics) to a political one (which is murky and easier to navigate into a tarpit). |
Why? Explain your reasoning.