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Something you forgot to add was that the EDS, for a short time, retained the 8m diameter for Ares V before it too ballooned into the same diameter as the core stage.

I mean, All the Shuttle Derived launchers basically work the same way, with the finalized Ares 5 being the only one with different engines

This guy is so underrated!

Ares V looks like if SLS spent several years on steroids

It's great to see some positive SLS media on youtube and amongst content creators about space and rockets. I'm getting far too fed up with the anti SLS and Arianne 6 crowd who boohoo and belittle the designs simply because Starship and Super Heavy exist. Which sure, they do, but that combined stack has flown twice and ended both missions having achieved not even a third of their objectives and having blown up. Meanwhile SLS succeeded pretty much flawlessly, and Arianne 6, whilst I'm sad it wont fly this year, will most likely perform as well as its predecessor. SLS offers the most payload to the Moon and beyond out of any rocket currently in production, including Starship which could only match it after close to 20 launches to give it the fuel needed to get beyond LEO. What's the point in having such a massive rocket if the upper stage is stuck in LEO without refueling? Arianne 6 builds on the history of the massively successful Arianne family, making launches basically half the cost for ESA, and again will offer better payload to GTO than the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy as well as again Starship without its in-orbit refueling. Any case, loved the breakdown and comparison between SLS and the Ares V, I remember back in the day being so caught up in the Constellation program and I was quite upset when they cancelled it (though the Ares I did have some flaws, like notably the points in the launch that aborting would kill the crew). Whilst they may have been different vehicles, at least somewhat in spirit, the Ares V gets to live on in the other shuttle derived launcher SLS.

Can you please describe it on Metric system? Everyone in the world have a hard time understanding "Pounds", "gallons" and "yards"

Question: Do you think SLS Cargo (Any Block) will ever be used? I've always thought that SLS would probably stick to just being a launch vehicle for Orion due to a non-competitive cost per launch, but I am curious to hear your thoughts!

Nice work David Keep it up

Jupiter 246 stretched heavy looks so interresting but unfortently there isnt much Information on it but hey we have SLS looking back it felt like a uphill battle to get it onto the pad but it flew to the moon . Also thanks David for being factual about SLS and not saying "but spaceX " every five secons also side note SLS is my Favorit rocket becouse of all the hate it has gottan

One more year until Artemis 2!!! 🥳

Good video, but the Ares V and SLS are absolutley related. They are both Shuttle-derived vehicles, and thus, are common ancestors of the Space Shuttle. The Ares V may not have been directly turned into the SLS, but they are still related.

Very cool

damn, i follow you on twitter for some time and haven't realized you have a yt channel, just discovered. nice content btw

I saw your tweets in spitter recently, and just got time to watch. We could've saved so much time if Jupiter was selected from the start. Lunar Lander proposals might’ve begun in the mid 2010s instead. And it's the perfect naming scheme! Jupiter after Saturn. Like Artemis after Apollo.

Ironically, not having some hard political mandate to land on the moon sounds like a good thing for SLS existence. NASA didn't had to plan for a bulky lander and could just call it a day

omg David willis from real life!

where did you get those new hls renders from? are they official?

Perfect rocket research for project Aquarius program, new Jupiter V Rocket family 🍀🍀❤️❤️

Woooooo

🎉

why will there be such a long gap between artemis 3 and 4?

Well, they scrapped all of that. As expected. 2018 was to orbit the moon. It never happened. I wonder why!

The difference is that one is named Ares-V and the other is named SLS :3

Ares V any day of the week. It's isn't Congress who's ass is going to be flying the thing. Our Astronauts deserve the very best. If we can afford unnecessary and illegal wars, tax cuts for the wealthy elites and corporate entities a militarized police then we and Congress's universal health care, then we can afford Ares V.

NASA engineering is American Pride, you can't say the same for SSpaceX engineering.

The real winner here are the Gulf Coast State Senators.

Saying Ares V and SLS are not related is like saying you are not related to your sister because you don't like her.

Will the SLS send humans to Mars???