WASHINGTON - NASA’s Boeing-built deep space exploration rocket, Space Launch System , is set to fire its behemoth core stage for the first time on Saturday, a crucial test for a years-delayed U.S. government project facing mounting pressure from emerging private sector technology.
It is seen as a vital step before a debut unmanned launch later this year under NASA’s Artemis program, the Trump administration’s push to land humans on the moon again by 2024. The expendable super heavy-lift SLS is three years behind schedule and nearly $3 billion over budget. Critics have long argued for NASA to transition from the rocket’s shuttle-era core technologies, which have launch costs of $1 billion or more per mission, to newer commercial alternatives promising lower costs.
Can they put Trump on it whether it works of not?
I cannot believe we continue to waste money on this pointless goal.
Wow
You mean it might blow up?
I bet they'll even find Covid on the moon.
Good way to piss away our money.
100 dollars says the rocket doesn't make it?
Yeah, in a few years the US is going back to the moon and this time to stay to roam around... We don't have time for these anti-democracy riots.... Focus everyone
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