After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready to fly

Re:After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready ... by jvanderbot on Sunday August 28, 2022 @08:49PM (#32633714)

Artemis is big, but NASA is much more than that. If a Flagship mission says "no thanks", that's a serious customer speaking directly. EC is about the same size as the current Artemis program.

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Re:After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready ... by Rebelgecko on Sunday August 28, 2022 @09:53PM (#32634021)

Although it is notable IMO that EC was legally required to launch on SLS, to help justify its existence... Until there was some 11th hour maneuvering and Congress decided to rewrite the law saying that it was only mandatory to launch on SLS if SLS if SLS passed the vibe check

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Re:After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready ... by elurg on Monday August 29, 2022 @04:17AM (#32635846)

> EC is about the same size as the current Artemis program.

EC cost estimates are currently about 4-5 billion for the whole program while a single SLS launch is ~2 billion.

The whole SLS/Orion program runs at few billion each year and it's already spent more than 10x the entire cost of Europa Clipper.

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