NASA's Artemis moon rocket will cost $6 billion more than planned: report

Space ^ | MAY 26, 2023 | By Andrew Jones

[Steely Tom]

A billion ain’t what it used to be.

[ptsal]

Sounds like this project is a lot like the high speed rail in California. /sarc

[Steely Tom]

Hey I’d be all for letting Musk do it.

But if we must have a government-run space program, a few billions are going to dribble over the brim of the bowl.

[Vermont Lt]

Just let Musk and Bezos do it. It will be faster and cheaper. And the video will be a lot better. And you know the astronauts will be cooler.

[fidelis]

A billion more here, and a billion more there. Pretty soon you’re talking about a lot of money...

[rxsid]

"Hey I’d be all for letting Musk do it.

But if we must have a government-run space program, a few billions are going to dribble over the brim of the bowl."

Yup.

We certainly don't need the CCP ruling space and/or the moon unchallenged.

Now, that's not to say that cost overruns are ok.

[daku]

Would be hilarious if there were a starship with a couple dozen passengers waiting there when Artemis finally does arrive at the moon

[Steely Tom]

Would be hilarious if there were a starship with a couple dozen passengers waiting there when Artemis finally does arrive at the moon

I wonder if Musk would take an offer from an independent funding source.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Is that before or after the big guy gets his 10%?

[CodeToad]

Boeing, or BOING!, is involved. Costs in that woke company always go beyond reasonable.

[Red Badger]

NASA needs to stop picking vendors.

They aren’t good at it...................

[Redmen4ever]

$15 billion?

With that kind of financing, Elon would be selling subdivisions, turning the $15 billion into real money.

[al baby]

Ley the Ukraine do it

[cgbg]

NASA’s secret motto is:

“The dog ate my homework.”

[cgbg]

Houston we have a problem:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/nasa-seeks-public-input/

The Chinese don’t have to worry about this garbage.

[farmguy]

You just gave me a great idea for making a grant request.

High speed rail ... to the moon.

What couldn’t biden go for? ( @ the usual 10% rate)

[Campion]

The use of heritage RS-25 engines and boosters from the space shuttle and Constellation programs for the new SLS rocket was intended to bring significant cost and schedule savings over developing new systems. But the "complexity of developing, updating, and integrating new systems along with heritage components proved to be much greater than anticipated,

When lawyers and politicians play at doing engineering ...

[chief lee runamok]

And another six billion dollars when this significant six billion dollar cost overrun is used up.

[NWFree]

I’m sure President Retard will raise the debt ceiling to “pay” for it.

It’s the libtard way