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Trump may cancel NASA's powerful SLS Moon rocket – here's what that would mean

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• jfengel 2y ago
  Well, stopped clocks... We'll see if it actually happens. People love to complain about government "waste", but it turns out to be remarkably hard to actually find any. The government has a vested interest in keeping its aerospace firms afloat. We've never needed to go to the moon, certainly not again. We do it because we want to keep that industry going. The SLS is probably the wrong way to do that. But just zeroing out its budget would create a lot of chaos in that industry. A lot would be lost in the process. The businesses who lose out would surely deserve that, but the workers (both for them and for the many, many side-industries and suppliers) do not. We do, at least, have a commercial alternative now. But it's just one. And to be blunt, having the owner of that commercial alternative be a key adviser to the President smacks of corruption rather than serious consideration of the tradeoffs.