Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine
by Melting_Harps on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:58AM
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> Why spend so much when these other options are available? Surely not ignorance. Is it malice? corruption? Someone's ego?
I went into my disappointment with Bezo's choice to focus on Amazon rather than take the lead at Blue Origin while Boeing is on its knees in both their commercial airliner and Aerospace program a week ago knowing something like his would occur. It just raised $25 Billion in a Bond sale [1] and now we're back to this stagnant entity clogging up the heavy lift system and we revert back to the same nepotism that has plagued aerospace for decades.
> SLS will cost upwards of a billion per launch. Compare that to $90 million for a reusable Falcon Heavy launch or ~$150 million for a disposable one.
I went into my disappointment with Bezo's choice to focus on Amazon rather than take the lead at Blue Origin while Boeing is on its knees in both their commercial airliner and Aerospace program a week ago knowing something like his would occur. It just raised $25 Billion in a Bond sale [1] and now we're back to this stagnant entity clogging up the heavy lift system and we revert back to the same nepotism that has plagued aerospace for decades.
> SLS will cost upwards of a billion per launch. Compare that to $90 million for a reusable Falcon Heavy launch or ~$150 million for a disposable one.
But this helps clarify things, too.
1: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-raises-25-billion-bond...