spaceflight, 7 months ago

A single engine on #NASA's #rocket costs roughly the same amount 💰 that the #SpaceAgency paid for an entire mission on the #FalconHeavy rocket 🚀 https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/inspector-general-on-nasas-plans-to-reduce-sls-costs-highly-unrealistic/

#SLS #Artemis

W6KME, 7 months ago

@spaceflight This sounds outrageous to people who simply fail to understand that Falcon heavy is not a direct competitor to SLS. They are quite different in capability. Falcon does certain things very well, but it's not built to throw massive weights beyond LEO. That's not what kerosene does best.