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  1. #SpacePolitics
    “It got funded as a #rocket to #nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it,” #Garver says. Legacy contractors like #Boeing continued to receive large bonus payments 💰 for working on the #SLS, despite delays and mushrooming #costs.
    Critics of the #SLS argue that the rocket is #unsustainable by #design, relying on an old and potentially quite #expensive way to get to #space. Much of SLS is a holdover from the #spaceshuttle. But while the shuttle #orbiter, #engines, and external #tanks were designed to be #reusable, SLS and its engines were not.

    “They’ve designed a rocket that is basically #unsustainable, because it’s completely #throwaway. The only bit that comes back is #Orion

    “Depending on how you look at it, the #SLS is either a product of a #broken #system that curries #favor to #wealthy 💰 industries or an example of representative #democracy working as it should,” technologyreview.com/2023/01/0

    Is #Artemis based on

  2. 📆 Dec 11, 2019 #SpaceX could use the investment from the #government 🏢 to supplement the development of its #rockets 🚀, and then ultimately use the rockets to make #money 💰once development was complete. theverge.com/2019/12/11/209817

    #NASA #Garver

  3. "the #mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for politics. People writing about #SpaceExploration are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye 👀 on how our national monies are spent."

    Former Deputy #NASA Administrator Lori #Garver forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey

    #LaunchCost : :ccby: ourworldindata.org/grapher/cos

    #ESA #Vega #Ariane

  4. Introducing the #SenateLaunchSystem

    "the system allowed the #aerospace #industry -- who was getting billions of dollars 💰 to build [the #SLS] -- to tell Congress they could do it by that time," #Garver said, explaining that the industry knew it'd be paid the same amount 💰 every year, #regardless of delays. "There was a #reverse incentive."

    #NASA Inspector General Paul Martin : "We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop that combined #SLS and #Orion system work to the contractors' rather than NASA's #advantage." cnet.com/science/space/billion

    #Artemis #LaunchCost #SpacePolitics

  5. Introducing the #SenateLaunchSystem

    "the system allowed the #aerospace #industry -- who was getting billions of dollars 💰 to build [the #SLS] -- to tell Congress they could do it by that time," #Garver said, explaining that the industry knew it'd be paid the same amount 💰 every year, #regardless of delays. "There was a #reverse incentive."

    #NASA Inspector General Paul Martin : "We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop that combined #SLS and #Orion system work to the contractors' rather than NASA's #advantage." cnet.com/science/space/billion

    #Artemis #LaunchCost #SpacePolitics

  6. Introducing the #SenateLaunchSystem

    "the system allowed the #aerospace #industry -- who was getting billions of dollars 💰 to build [the #SLS] -- to tell Congress they could do it by that time," #Garver said, explaining that the industry knew it'd be paid the same amount 💰 every year, #regardless of delays. "There was a #reverse incentive."

    #NASA Inspector General Paul Martin : "We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop that combined #SLS and #Orion system work to the contractors' rather than NASA's #advantage." cnet.com/science/space/billion

    #Artemis #LaunchCost #SpacePolitics

  7. Introducing the #SenateLaunchSystem

    "the system allowed the #aerospace #industry -- who was getting billions of dollars 💰 to build [the #SLS] -- to tell Congress they could do it by that time," #Garver said, explaining that the industry knew it'd be paid the same amount 💰 every year, #regardless of delays. "There was a #reverse incentive."

    #NASA Inspector General Paul Martin : "We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop that combined #SLS and #Orion system work to the contractors' rather than NASA's #advantage." cnet.com/science/space/billion

    #Artemis #LaunchCost #SpacePolitics

  8. Introducing the

    "the system allowed the -- who was getting billions of dollars 💰 to build [the ] -- to tell Congress they could do it by that time," said, explaining that the industry knew it'd be paid the same amount 💰 every year, of delays. "There was a incentive."

    Inspector General Paul Martin : "We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop that combined and system work to the contractors' rather than NASA's ." cnet.com/science/space/billion

  9. Former Deputy NASA Administrator "#Garver pushed for #substantial #change at the behest of the #Obama #administration and more investment in the #commercial #space #industry; whereas, #Bolden was more supportive of #traditional space and represented the views of many people at #NASA at the time #resistant to change. Bolden and his allies #won the battle" arstechnica.com/science/2022/0

    #SpacePolitics #LaunchCost