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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by mobilefriendly on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:22AM (#21112838)
Indeed, the space shuttle was so expensive it burned up much of the rest of NASAs budget-- keeping that disastrous, failed program running is why NASA doesn't have manned spaceflight capability at the moment.
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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by jabl on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:35AM (#21113530)
Well, from an outsider perspective, the SLS/Orion program is pure pork. Nobody holding the purse strings cares whether the thing ever flies. Heck, probably they even prefer if it never flies (always just a few years and tens of billions in the future); a failed launch is potentially politically catastrophic.
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