re: #3 HoosierHoops

Space policy-
We all just watched a rocket that could lift far more than the shuttle.
So now we have to re invent a heavy lift rocket, because if my President Obama quote was right- “we already went to the moon so why go again”. I don’t get it.

If we had simply kept the ability to build Saturn 5 rockets, we would not need the Russians to get people or heavy objects into orbit. The contractors now claim it would be more expensive to re do Saturn 5 than start from scratch. I do not believe them.

I guess rocket scientists and space policy makers never heard “waste not want not”.