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Old March 17th 17, 12:12 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Musk plans for mars

JF Mezei wrote:

On 2017-03-16 02:00, Fred J. McCall wrote:

What would be the point of that other than to flush more and more
money into the sewer? You won't 'cut funding' overall. You'll just
cut the annual requirement while spending more overall before you have
a flyable system.


The whole point of Ares and then SLS/Orion was to keep generating pork
jobs in politically sensitive areas and pork contracts to companies who
make nice big donations to the party.

Shuttle killed, replaced with Ares. Ares killed, replaced with SLS.

If they kill SLS/Orion, there would be intense lobby pressure to replace
it with some new pork project. Musk may have Trump's ears, but
lobbyists for the "legacy" space business have all of congressmens'
wallets.

That is why I am thinking that scaling back budget for the rocket to
nowhere saves on annual budget while not requiring the government start
a replacement project.


Why not just take a pile of cash out in the parking lot and burn it?


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