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 bayesian_horse on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:23AM (#32638659)

Commercial providers can and do fail just as hard. I'd also question cost estimates based on nothing actually built or seriously planned through.

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Re:After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready ... by panick21_ on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:11PM (#32639915)

Again, its not just commercial. The other internal options were also better.

And even if you assume they fail, the bids were expected to be in the 2-5 billion $ range.

Not in the 20 billion+ $ range. And those bids would have been for a 130 ton rocket, not a 90 ton rocket like SLS is.

> I'd also question cost estimates based on nothing actually built or seriously planned through.

You can question it, but those kinds of estimates are what NASA bases it choices on. And NASA picked what their own estimations suggested was the worst thing.

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