@lori_garver βIt got funded as a rocket to nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with itβ.
The #rocket is #unsustainable by design, relying on an old and potentially quite expensive π° way to get to #space π. Much of #SLS is a holdover from the #SpaceShuttle. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065143/nasa-artemis-return-to-moon
The #rocket is #unsustainable by design, relying on an old and potentially quite expensive π° way to get to #space π. Much of #SLS is a holdover from the #SpaceShuttle. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065143/nasa-artemis-return-to-moon
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The #costs were much higher than expected: Each flight cost an estimated $500 million π°, which was similar to the cost of #Apollo-era launches. Carrying a one-pound payload proved to be about 10 times more expensive than the optimistic forecasts had predicted https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3095318/the-lost-decades-of-government-run-space-travel/