JF Mezei wrote on Tue, 9 Apr 2019
18:21:59 -0400:

On 2019-04-03 11:37, Fred J. McCall wrote:

The only way the SLS Mafia will ever take anything seriously is when
the cancellation notice comes through.


I've seen ATK (Now Grunman) mentioned often as the group that lobbied
for the SLS $$$ continuing.


They're certainly one member of the SLS Mafia.


Or all the delays to SLS, do they benefit
since they aren't really producing SRBs for SLS as NASA just spends time
testing the SSMEs now and then, and dropping Orion in a pool a couple of
times.


They'll also fire a solid rocket now and then.


Who actually benefits for SLS/Orion project lumbering on forever without
actual launches ?


Anyone involved, since contracts have to cover fixed costs whether you
actually build anything or not. But the idea is that they will
eventually build something and shoot it off once a year or so.


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