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To summarize: Per Launch: - $2.2B for SLS - $568M for ground systems - $1B for Orion - $300M for Orion's Service Module NASA's Inspector General plainly s
by dotnet00 5y ago
To summarize:
Per Launch:
- $2.2B for SLS
- $568M for ground systems
- $1B for Orion
- $300M for Orion's Service Module
NASA's Inspector General plainly says "a price tag that strikes us as unsustainable.".
The absurd costs of the program relative to results produced are I think well known to enthusiasts, but the actual numbers are still crazy to see. Nice that at least someone at NASA is talking openly about how unsustainable this is for Artemis.
- wmf 5y agoAnd the total program cost will be $93B for 10 missions.
- dotnet00 5y agoI interpreted that as $93B for everything including Gateway, Human Landing System and all the commercial science landers due to start launching this year. Although yes, the vast majority of that is still SLS and Orion. From my count ~$44.5B has been spent on SLS and Orion already.
- ncmncm 5y agoConsidering Gateway has no reason to exist except as a place SLS can get to, it is worse. The companies building that stuff should be planning on it all being cancelled suddenly. Maybe walk away from the contracts, ahead of time. Anybody working on it should be finding other work, pronto.
- avmich 5y ago> NASA's Inspector General plainly says "a price tag that strikes us as unsustainable.". "Unsustainable" means "it cannot be sustained". That is up to Congress - if it comes with requests and money, NASA will do - will have to do. Now the question is, do we, the people, want to spend our billions this way? Are congressmen and congresswomen aware about our opinion on this subject?
- wmf 5y agoThey're aware that they haven't been voted out of office.