I mean the author seems to believe that the SLS is a space program, when clearly it’s a jobs program. Nobody in congress or the senate gives a crap about if th

I mean the author seems to believe that the SLS is a space program, when clearly it’s a jobs program. Nobody in congress or the senate gives a crap about if the SLS achieves anything, as long it keeps paying for jobs in their home state. Even senior leaders at NASA hate the SLS, and the fact that it hamstrings into using ancient technology that was difficult to use, even before everyone with the knowledge to operate it retired. NASA would much rather be developing new rocket technology, rather than painstakingly rearranging old rocket technology. But doing that would risk Apollo era jobs, so instead we have the SLS.