> NASA's SLS, how much of that is a job program in part to prevent hoards of talented folks building rockets for competing nations Zero. Because NASA has no pr

> NASA's SLS, how much of that is a job program in part to prevent hoards of talented folks building rockets for competing nations Zero. Because NASA has no problem if those engineers would work for other nation as long as it isn't Russia or North Korea and co. And that wouldn't happen anyway. Those people would likely work in one of the huge amount of space startups or just go to the typical ULA, BlueOrigin, SpaceX and so on. You make the totally wrong assumption that SLS has anything to do with rational thought. It really doesn't.