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Thursday, March 18, 2021

THE HAPPENING WORLD: NASA to Try Space Launch System “Green Run” Again

The first attempt, on 2021-01-16, shut down prematurely due to an engine parameter exceeding a limit. The Space Launch System, NASA's giant “rocket to nowhere”, will, if it ever flies, discard four RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engines and two solid rocket boosters, all of which were routinely reused during the Space Shuttle program, in the Atlantic Ocean. This disposable insanity has cost U.S. taxpayers around twenty billion dollars so far, and the Office of Management and Budget estimated in 2019 that after all development costs were sunk, each launch would cost around US$ 2 billion.

Posted at March 18, 2021 13:01