> But this is all paid by the public, and I don't get why the public would want to pay for that in 2026. The public never decided they wanted this. Some senat

> But this is all paid by the public, and I don't get why the public would want to pay for that in 2026. The public never decided they wanted this. Some senators decided they wanted to keep the old space shuttle jobs in their states. That's how this came to be. The public didn't want it, NASA didn't want it. They could have had many automated actual science-delivering missions for the price of one rocket that's too expensive to even use more than a couple times and that will send a few people to a rock we've already been to for a photo op.