They don’t. That’s why the launch was delayed because of the weather.
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I want to see one landing on the green at Mar-a-Lago.
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Every asshole thing Musk has said or done pales into insignificance when stacked up against what SpaceX is doing.
The button-down crowd at NASA/ULA/Boeing don’t smoke blunts on the Joe Rogan show or post goofy tweets at six AM, but then they don’t launch much either, they mostly stand around like timid third graders with their thumbs up their exhaust nozzles.
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From what I have gathered, NASA isn’t interested in SLS. It is congress.
SLS is the NASA equivalent of the F-22.
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good grief; in color! thats blasphemie.
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Born in '68. I had some early brain damage and don’t remember much before junior high, but I remember the day my Dad told me they had cancelled Apollo, I cried myself to sleep. Somehow, I was sure we would never make it back to the moon. I would love to be wrong.
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Musk: Such joy! So many team members, so happy! They (and our investors) would be terribly disappointed to see another ship landing failure right now…
… cut off drone ship feed! Let me know when it’s landed successfully. S’okay? Great. Bring the feed back up.
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I know you were joking, but apparently the stagger in landing of the two at Cape Canaveral was deliberate. Scott Manley’s YouTube video on the launch said it was safer than the way they did it the first time ( though he didn’t say why ) .
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Call Musk what you like — and you may very well be correct, or even understating the matter o.o’ — the spectacle of rockets landing on a column of fire is lifted right off the cover of the '50s-'70s pulp science fiction books and magazines. It gives me a little frission of joy, every single time I see it. It’s almost like ASMR, specifically aimed at aging nerds and geeks…
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… which is a touch ironic given that SpaceX has a dearth of aging nerds and so-called greybeards, and has an employee median age lower than average… not to mention, their median pay is “significantly lower” than average.
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Same here, but I’d venture he’s too busy sorting out the other mess.
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Not to mention Roscosmos. As the kleptocrats looted Russia, its space program rested on its laurels.
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I’m pretty sure it could, just not as a single load the size of a LEM. It could do multiple trips to orbit with things we could in theory assemble there and trips to fuel it. Or maybe one trip to the moon with a far smaller payload (like a modern drone…but I don’t know that we could get a drone that could actually land on the moon without going splat that way).
I’m going to assume the BFR could do it though 
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DoH! Bart !!
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Do a web search on this exact phrase: “Senate Launch System”
I’m attracted to the idea of a vacuum protecting the earth from the vast amounts of hot air that great deliberative body produces, but it might be cheaper to enclose the capitol in a vacuum seal on earth.
Fun thought experiment: if military/space contractor jobs were at stake in their district, would a congressperson vote to launch themselves into oblivion? I think putting their egos up against their re-election pandering instincts would make their heads asplode.
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