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> SLS vs Falcon Heavy is simply a battle between two different government contractors. One is not more government-based than the other. This is completely fals
by CrazyStat 4y ago
> SLS vs Falcon Heavy is simply a battle between two different government contractors. One is not more government-based than the other.
This is completely false. SLS was established by Congress with various mandates on the technology and process to design and build it.
Falcon Heavy was not.
Many of the issues with SLS can be traced to Congress's requirements that they put on the project, like forcing it to reuse 50-year-old STS technology.
- nwah1 4y agoIf congress asked Intel to build a computer meeting specifications from 50 years ago, regardless of how stupid that request is, and they somehow failed to do that in a resonable amount of time or budget... it would be an astounding display of incompetence. And failing to even try to create a new showcase technology of something better is just additional incompetence.
- CrazyStat 4y agoThat may be true, but it's orthogonal to the truth of the original statement that the SLS program was not more government-based than Falcon Heavy. SpaceX over the last two decades has been a superb illustration of the value of private enterprise.