> some pretty-reasonable estimates put the total cost of NASA's "Space Launch System" at ~$5B per individual launch. SLS is bad, but it's not quite that bad.

> some pretty-reasonable estimates put the total cost of NASA's "Space Launch System" at ~$5B per individual launch. SLS is bad, but it's not quite that bad. A full launch of SLS + Orion is ~4.1B. A launch of SLS without Orion (a theoretical cargo mission) is "just" ~$2.8B.