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Imagine in an alternate universe where they decided to back an SLS type program over SpaceX, perhaps due to corruption of some sort. In that case, there's prob
by eloff 6y ago
Imagine in an alternate universe where they decided to back an SLS type program over SpaceX, perhaps due to corruption of some sort.
In that case, there's probably better than 10-1 odds that SpaceX would have beat them there for a fraction of the price. They would have looked stupid and been the laughing stock of the country. Future budgets would have been seriously cut.
They made the smart decision here to back SpaceX. Love or hate Elon Musk, his companies get results in an incredible fashion. So far everyone betting against them has got horribly burned. They are excellent examples of American ingenuity and enterprise.
- merpnderp 6y agoThey already look stupid for being part of SLS and having prominent admins say things like landing a rocket isn't that hard and NASA could have done it in the 80's if they'd wanted to, or the Space Shuttle which was a massive downgrade from the Saturn series.
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- inglor_cz 6y agoWell, this guy finally considers himself too old to run for re-election again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby SLS had a big fan in him, and he used to punch above his weight in space matters.