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SLS is at $100 million apiece and has no realistic path forward for improving that. Fail-and-iterate was never even an option for them. https://en.wikipedia.or
by perihelions 4y ago
SLS is at $100 million apiece and has no realistic path forward for improving that. Fail-and-iterate was never even an option for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25#Space_Shuttle_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25#Space_Shuttle_program ("contract extension to manufacture 18 additional RS-25 engines, with associated services, for $1.79 billion")