The #SLS and #Orion spacecraft projects are of such a scale that they spend money in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, creating #parochial interest in nearly every congressional district. It sounds like a straightforward argument: cancel the slow and outdated SLS and direct its $2.6 billion 💰 per year into novel public-private partnerships like #SpaceX’s #Starshiphttps://www.planetary.org/articles/why-we-have-the-sls