A cynic might suggest that SLS is not so much a rocket as a job creation scheme. As such, presumably it’s still very effective. Until such misaligned incentive

A cynic might suggest that SLS is not so much a rocket as a job creation scheme. As such, presumably it’s still very effective. Until such misaligned incentives are removed from the way that NASA is funded (and ideally, more broadly, removed from US Politics) such boondoggles will always continue.