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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." https://www.cnet.com/science/space/billions-behind-a-lunar-dream-why-nasas-artemis-i-moon-rocket-may-prove-unsustainable
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#NYT 📆 Sept. 2011 #Texas is home to #NASA’s Mission Control and #Florida is where NASA’s #rockets are launched from. The two #senators played key roles in writing the NASA blueprint and outlining many #specifics of the rocket they wanted NASA to build, leading critics to #sarcastically call it the #SenateLaunchSystem. Critics note that NASA has announced ambitious rocket plans before, only to cancel them as #costs #escalated and #schedules slipped https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/science/space/15nasa.html
#Huffpost 📆 Apr. 2011 "The best bang for the buck 💵 investment in our future is a system where industrial activities such as carrying freight and building buildings are done by people who do them everywhere else in our society -- the #commercial sector -- rather than an #expensive #costplus single-use government program" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-senate-launch-system_b_843607
#Economist 📆 Aug 24th 2022 "powered by yesterday’s #technology and brought about by yesterday’s #thinking" https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/24/nasas-space-launch-system-is-yesterdays-rocket