JF Mezei wrote:

On 2017-02-27 18:52, Fred J. McCall wrote:

I doubt he cares much about either of them, since an SLS/Orion mission
will cost about 10x what a Falcon Heavy/Dragon V2 mission will cost.


Considering what he announced for his Mars plans, it would benefit him
for NASA to kill SLS so that any Mars mission relies on SpaceX' rockets.


Nonsense. Of the four flights currently on the books for SLS through
2026, none are headed anywhere near Mars. Meanwhile, Musk is talking
about a first crewed flight of his Interplanetary Transport System to
Mars in (wait for it) 2026. And it will cost a lot less than the
billion dollars per flight that SLS will cost.


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