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It's a rocket built by congressional committee. Therefore it will never be worth the cost, but we'll keep funding it because it's a jobs program and not a lot m
by elmerfud 4y ago
It's a rocket built by congressional committee. Therefore it will never be worth the cost, but we'll keep funding it because it's a jobs program and not a lot more than that.
- Yizahi 4y agoI think someone did a calculation, that they could have just pay every engineer in the program half a million dollars to keep them their job and still have billions left.
- mft_ 4y agoHow about all of those subcontractors in congressional districts?
- snerbles 4y agoSome are upset by the "Senate Launch System" epithet, but it applied a decade ago and still applies today.
- elsonrodriguez 4y agoThere is some value to a jobs program if it provides the basis for a larger rocketry industry. The type of knowledge necessary to build and operate these craft is highly specialized and without applying and passing on that knowledge we will lose it. Also SpaceX will have competitors, and those competitors will need a hiring pool, otherwise the growth of the industry will be constrained.