Comment by justin66
4 months ago
> Just look at the suppliers
I suspect the facilities working on SLS solid rocket boosters are owned by Northrop Grumman, just like the companies that were left over from making Peacekeeper missiles, now making Sentinel missiles, are probably now owned by Northrop Grumman. This doesn't show that Sentinel - or any other program - is benefitting from SLS's supply chains in a meaningful way. It's hard to see how that's possible, given SLS's low-volume nature. But I guess I'll try to keep an open mind...
> Furthermore, you might want to look into why the space shuttle had the architecture it did
I have lots of opinions about that, but if you have some reference material you'd like to recommend, please do! (and if they support the notion that SLS SRB production is somehow a boon to SRB makers everywhere, I guess I'd be intrigued by that as well)
"there's less missile business, and the missile people are making moon rockets now, but I don't see how that could possibly help them make missiles again if they were asked to"
This conversation is painful because people don't seem to understand that, okay, military boosters and civilian boosters are both related businesses, but the SLS SRB business is something separate and is as similar to the others as a fish is to a turnip.