A new report finds NASA has spent an obscene amount of money on SLS propulsion

I would like to humbly submit that we should address the beam before the mote.

https://i.imgur.com/UvyGJjq.jpeg

The SLS is operating as designed by Congress - shovelling very amounts of money to the ex-shuttle contractors and their workforces.

Any actual flights are a bonus.

Those of us that live outside the US really wonder why the debt ceiling dance happens like clockwork without any effort to remove the most obvious of pork barrels.

This article is a hammer looking for a nail. The solutions suggested as reasons private company can do this cheaper expresses a clear favoring of increased privatization. NASA’s 2022 economic output was +71B with a budget of 24B.