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2023-11-06 19:25 UTC

@Matt5sean3@rva.party @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt > And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons? because NASA is really fucking inefficient at using their money > A report from NASA's Office of Inspector General released in November 2021 outlines just how much development costs increased for SLS between its first iteration and now, and revealed how expensive each SLS launch will be. According to the report, NASA will end up spending a total of $93 billion on the Artemis program between 2012 and 2025, and each SLS/Orion launch will have a price tag of about $4.1 billion.

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@lain@lain.com 2023-11-06 19:35

@feld@bikeshed.party @Matt5sean3@rva.party @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt pretty unsafe, too. NASA lost 2 of 5 space shuttles to completely avoidable failures of equipment: "While the technical details of the Challenger and Columbia accidents are different, the organizational problems show similarities. Flight engineers' concerns about possible problems were not properly communicated to or understood by senior NASA managers. The vehicle gave ample warning beforehand of abnormal problems. A heavily layered, procedure-oriented bureaucratic structure inhibited necessary communication and action. " Imagine over half of all airbuses would have a catastrophic crash, nobody would ever board a plane. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_program

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