The SLS is exactly the rare case where he's right and you're wrong. It is a project whose goal is blatantly to spend money, not to fly any payload on any missio

The SLS is exactly the rare case where he's right and you're wrong. It is a project whose goal is blatantly to spend money, not to fly any payload on any mission. After spending tens of billions of dollars on development, you get a rocket that will cost a billion to fly, will never achieve the flight numbers to be able to honestly rely on it. It will likely fly very few times before it is cancelled. It will be uneconomical to use for any mission it flies, and any mission that uses it will only do that if they are forced to (the mission requirements changed such that only SLS allows the mission to be done, or the project is cancelled) or if the SLS budget pays for the rocket rather than the mission's budget.