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As someone completely unfamiliar with SLS: why?
by pc86 4y ago
As someone completely unfamiliar with SLS: why?
- nickff 4y agoSLS is extremely expensive, has taken a long time, and will have a low mission frequency (if successful at all).
- mrguyorama 4y agoIt's not perfectly efficient because it spends some of the budget on preventing congressional tampering and getting average americans interested in space. Apparently, if the government can't make a commercially competitive space program, we should just not have one at all.
- pdabbadabba 4y ago> not perfectly efficient That's a bit of an understatement! It's estimated to cost $4.1 billion per launch--about double the already impressive $2 billion per launch that was originally budgeted. https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-22-003.pdf https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-22-003.pdf
- Dig1t 4y agoIf anyone has done the job of getting Americans interested in space, it has to be SpaceX. They have a huge following of young nerds who are getting into aerospace engineering because they do such a good job publicizing their development efforts. SLS is so embarrassingly outdated when compared to SpaceX, it has done the opposite for me, it just made me realize how antiquated and bloated government projects are. Maybe it's more a reflection on how poorly the contracts were managed, idk. But comparing SpaceX vs SLS launches, SLS is a marvelous failure by every metric.
- Nekhrimah 4y agoWhile it may eventually deliver results, the primary goal of the SLS is a massive jobs programme, across the states of the politicians that support it.