While I agree about SLS, and I'm also hopeful about SpaceX's Starship stack, I'd really like to see a successful test. They're working on it, but just imagine how much closer they could have been with even a fraction of this SLS boondoggle contributed.
If NASA is supposed to be a multi-state grant to the sciences, I'd much rather they focus the funding where it will deliver results that benefit the public commons. The jobs program for obsolete and finicky space tech is a dis-service to the public and even the workers who's skills are in questionably useful specialties.
If NASA is supposed to be a multi-state grant to the sciences, I'd much rather they focus the funding where it will deliver results that benefit the public commons. The jobs program for obsolete and finicky space tech is a dis-service to the public and even the workers who's skills are in questionably useful specialties.