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Re:Starship is still not understood by panick21_ on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:14AM (#29026366)
> to make it out of solid, Congressional grade pork. Which would be SLS. Since nobody benefits by cancelling it,

There are always other people who think 'maybe those Alabama $ could go to Texas instead'.

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Re:Starship is still not understood by bryanlarsen on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:22AM (#29026463)
SLS pork is spread to all 50 states. Texas gets a good chunk of it. A small fraction of $2B is more than all of $10M.
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Re:Starship is still not understood by panick21_ on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:20AM (#29027143)
NASA budget will not change that much so the money will still be spent. You can compare launch cost like that.

And while it might use all 50 states, in reality the waste majority of money is spend in a very few locations as paying labor is huge part of the cost.

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Re:Starship is still not understood by JulianMorrison on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:42AM (#29026669)
The waste is not even a downside.
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