JF Mezei wrote:

On 2017-02-28 04:03, Fred J. McCall wrote:

Nonsense. Of the four flights currently on the books for SLS through
2026, none are headed anywhere near Mars.


Yet NASA pitches SLS/Orion as a mission to Mars thing in its PR.


But no Mars mission on the schedule for at least 10 years. NASA
pitches it as all things to all people. The lesson there is don't
believe marketing videos.


So it would benefit SpaceX for NASA to stop spending on the rocket to
nowehere and instead allocate that money for a project that is done by
SpaceX.


Except that isn't how it works and nobody is stupid enough to think it
is. Kill SLS/Orion and that money mostly goes away or goes into other
NASA developments.


Who benefits from SLS/orion spending? Are those competitors to SpaceX,
and if so, it shows how SpaceX benefits if NASA kills SLS/Orion and
direct those funds towards SpaceX.


Nope. SLS/Orion isn't competitive to anything. It simply costs too
much.


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