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 Aeolun on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:13PM (#32634133)

Didn’t SpaceX go from satellites to manned in like 3 years?

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Re:After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready ... by mr_toad on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:31PM (#32634218)

First successful orbital flight was 2008, first crewed flight was 2020.

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Re:After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready ... by Aeolun on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:39AM (#32634849)

To be fair, the first launch of Falcon 9 that was actually used to resupply the ISS was 2012, but I’ll admit that it’s not nearly 3 years :)

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