More than a bit of the funding already was approved. Space Launch system and Orion ARE actual flight tested hardware at this point, for example.
In fact, for all the publicity Musk has garnered for Falcon 9 and Dragon, Dragon remains un-certified for flight, and ULA would use a Boeing capsule that doesnt have actual hardware yet. So Orion at the moment is the only Human flight certified capsule in the US inventory.
However, CD has a point. SLS and Orion got their funding from the Obama administration; the present initiatives would require the current congress to aprove funding and they seem a bit more interested in flambeing the current resident of the oval office
In fact, for all the publicity Musk has garnered for Falcon 9 and Dragon, Dragon remains un-certified for flight, and ULA would use a Boeing capsule that doesnt have actual hardware yet. So Orion at the moment is the only Human flight certified capsule in the US inventory.
However, CD has a point. SLS and Orion got their funding from the Obama administration; the present initiatives would require the current congress to aprove funding and they seem a bit more interested in flambeing the current resident of the oval office
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!
No Quarter by Echo's Children
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!
No Quarter by Echo's Children