NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine

Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine by bpodgursky on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:23AM (#23057267)

I feel like we'd all be better off if the federal government just cut an equivalent no-strings-attached check to Alabama in perpetuity, cancelled the SLS, and freed up all the rocket scientists to build something useful.

They could probably even do it in Alabama! SpaceX could open a local branch and mop up the talent. The current "waste money on the SLS for political reasons" just feels like the worst of all possible worlds.

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Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine by ClumsyPilot on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:29AM (#23059199)

I feel we are better closing down instagram/<useless app>, and using freed up computer scientists to build something usefull.

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Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine by testrun on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:18PM (#23063921)

I don't think you understand the difference between public and private money

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Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:54AM (#23076933)

I don't think you understand that entire industry sectors would not exist without Nasa. There would be no GPS, no Google-maps, and you wouldn't know when a hurricane is coming.

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