Major component failure ends SLS rocket core stage test-fire prematurely, NASA explains

Credit: NASA

[pirminborer]

Engine bleed, engine condition, challenge, work, adress it, we learn, overcome the challenge, major component failure but we accomplished a lot today. What a BS.

[kokomo]

Let me sum this up: Failure on a machine NASA has spent years and billions of dollars on. This is about what I expect from NASA any more. The SLS is still years away from flying. Ridicules!

[rogeriopenna]

Come on you pessimists!

SLS only started being developed a few years ago, 1988 to be exact.

[sirjames]

Nothing a few more billion can’t fix and some jobs for the good old boys. The thought of dumping all that hardware into the sea is sickening.

[christopheblanchi]

Imagine what SpaceX could have done with that money. The contractors that NASA have used have failed the test of ideas. These contractors are not so much interested in making it to the stars, they are mostly interested make it to the bank.

[earthwormjj]

Imagine being one of the astronauts scheduled to fly on SLS. You'd be caught between thinking it might never launch and hoping it never does.

[balaji-kartha]

This is what happens when bureaucrats and Boeing (who depend on lobbying for getting government money) try to do science and technology. They give a positive spin to wasting money and clueless action!

[oljimeagle]

They just need another 20 billion... My God what a pit.

[patsystone]

I can't believe how they still wasting money on SLS...
It's ridiculous...

[earth]

Why are we bothering the whole thing will be cancelled next week.

[kerbal]

If Wernher von Braun was still alive and working for nasa he would not be proud I think he would start working for Space X especially when seeing the cost

[mikumikuiyada]

dont worry. starship and super heavy will have their first static fire test before SLS, reach orbit before SLS, land before SLS. Also, i believe that the day SLS launches, we will be going there via starship.

[coentrov]

JIM DON'T GO, WE NEED YOU, you bring a lot to the table, and most of all transparency!!!

[cornerofthemoon]

Apparently it's difficult to get old, used equipment to perform for longer than one minute.

[pirminborer]

Must have cost 1 million in PR advising to get that speech and those words figured out

[Cydonius]

They had but one job meanwhile in Boca Chica, Starships keep getting churned out, one fails, the next goes on the stand.

[borrico]

Transparency in the development of the equipment would compel changes in the old processes. Let’s hope reform will happen in the coming days.

[andyphillips]

Bluff and bluster from someone clearly heading for a major component failure.

[samos]

Well, so much for Artemis I flying Q4 this year. I'll be extremely surprised if the SLS is able to do another engine test before 2021 is even over.

[kameljoe]

You mean that your 20b dollar project only throws standard codes of MCF, yet you can not program it to dictate what component failed. I mean you got 20b dollars wrapped up in this yet you can not in less than a min tell us what failed. What a waste of money.