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That is such a ridiculous statement to make. Its literally trolling and not making an argument.

Nobody says this first SLS shouldn't launch. Not that it would matter much if it didn't, but still.

The discussion is about forward looking space policy for the next 10 years, for the whole Artemis program.

SLS will fly LITERALLY 1 and then not again for 2-4 years. In that time a strategy change can and should be made.

This thread is full of people hoping it fails to launch.

Some people say that, reading all the discussion far few people hope that it fails then that the program overall should get reformed, ie. SLS/Orion should get dropped.

If it succeeds then billions more will be wasted on SLS.

If it fails, there’s a good chance those billions will redirected into in actually sustainable launch system.

It does suck to want something to fail, but you have to think about the bigger picture here and the greater good. No one is going to die.

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