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I gotta ask how a $2,000,000,000 single flight vehicle with a two year turnaround is still considered remotely acceptable?
by notjustanymike 5y ago
I gotta ask how a $2,000,000,000 single flight vehicle with a two year turnaround is still considered remotely acceptable?
- ncmncm 5y agoUS Congress & Senate require the $2B be distributed to contractors in all States. Actually flying the thing is about vanity, and using up supplies and equipment to make room / demand for more to be made. Maybe some stuff will be lofted, besides, a bonus. The rocket they stacked has to be launched. The best we can hope for is another will not be stacked. But for that to happen we probably need to start a new $trillion ICBM project. SLS may be the smaller evil. We might end up with both, if it looks like SLS is at risk.
- mbrodersen 5y agoIt’s a jobs creation program to improve re-election chances, and a transfer of tax $ to private companies in return for “lobbyism” (bribes) and lucrative jobs in those companies if re-election fails.