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SLS costs

2019-02-19

Amount spent on SLS thus far: $14 billion
Amount spent on Orion thus far: $16 billion
FY2019 SLS/Orion budget: $4,093 million up from $4,045 million in 2018. 🚀

And yet people within NASA are complaining about the lack of money for SLS/Orion. 🙄
— Laura Seward Forczyk ✨🌙💫🚀 (@LauraForczyk) February 18, 2019

Note typo of omitting the word million on the 2018-19 budgets so $4.093 billion in 2019 and $4.045 billion in 2018.
SLS is the giant NASA rocket that will be outperformed by the new SpaceX and Blue Origin rockets. Cost assumed to be $1.5 billion per rocket but a guess as none yet launched. Orion is NASA's Deep Space (moon) space ship. It is not clear if one has yet been completed. Also, note that the yearly costs of either rocket tech-welfare program would pay for Trump's wall.

Posted by:3dc

#5 The russian engines are better.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-02-19 16:46

#4 Maybe this is why we keep buying seats on Russian boosters instead of going with domestic commercial boosters?

Posted by: gorb 2019-02-19 07:35

#3 Sometimes called the Shelby Launch System™ for the care and effort the senior congressman has lavished over the years to protect the jobs in Huntsville, Alabama.

Posted by: magpie 2019-02-19 07:15

#2 And yet people within NASA are complaining about the lack of money for SLS/Orion.

Be interesting to find out what 'bonuses' were paid out among the bureaucrats.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-19 06:59

#1 Where does Muslim outreach fits in?

p.s.Orion = nuke propulsion you @!$^#@% NASA bureau-rats!

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-02-19 04:11

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