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Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine by ClumsyPilot on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:34AM (#23059231)
Firstly, this money is a pittance compared to the costs of development of F-22, which produced a habdfull of planes and thats it.

Second, the decision to use existing shuttle conoonebts was made basically by congress/ lobbyists. Congress gets insane amount of control over nasa, and can fund or de- fund individual projects. As a result, nasa has to tailor them to something congress will like and approve. This miopic managenent probably results in what weve got

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Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine by greedo on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:18AM (#23059484)
A) Whataboutism B) The program cost for the F-22 was 67B. It produced more than "a habdfull of planes", it produced 187. The reason it ended up costing so much (per aircraft) is the development cost had to be spread across fewer airframes than planned. Truncating the purchase to 187 is perhaps one of the greatest military acquisition mistakes in my lifetime.
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