'In the final stretch': NASA targeting Artemis rollout for Aug. 18

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NASA crews at Kennedy Space Center are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel as they ready for the first launch of the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis I mission.
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SLS is so... last century
It is outdated in design, being a single use, super heavy lift vehicle. It is ridiculously expensive ($1.6 billion per, with $800 million aspirational cost, and the aspirational production rate is only 2 a year, by 2024) so this is a program without near enough room for optimization. Those would be significant increases in efficiency/rate, but reusable rockets (order of magnitude cheaper launches) allow for a bigger future in space. The SLS program is/was a contractual hell, where wasted time/incompetence is rewarded. You don't want to overpressure your rocket manufacturers, there's definitely a safety/quality argument there, but you shouldn't under pressure them either... There's no ignoring NASA's procurement inefficiencies, even when space is about pushing the envelope.

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