The steel cylinder, which will help form one of the two, five-segment motors to be mounted to the Artemis 1 SLS core stage, was among the hardware that was delivered by train to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday (June 12).
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For the price we’re paying they should be made out of gold.
The cost for the single use engines on the core are estimated to be over one half billion dollars per launch. These are Shuttle engines that have been around for nearly fifty years, not some fancy new technology. The total cost of each launch is estimated to be two billion dollars.
As of now the first launch is four years behind schedule. The schedule started in 2011.