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There is. The SLS. That is much more economical, right?
Indeed. And Boeing is the main contractor for it so you can be sure it won't suffer any mishaps.
That sounds so futuristic.
As it's NASA is it using technology decades more advanced than the competition?
Are you joking? Well the answer is no, no the SLS is about 40 years behind as far as technology goes. It's basically a shuttle derived launch vehicle, the boosters are similar to the shuttle side boosters and it uses 4 slightly updated RS-25s (the space shuttle main engines) in the center stage.
Except instead of getting with the times and attempting some reusability, it actually has less reusability than the shuttle had. They actually throw away all of those expensive high performance hydrolox engines on every launch.
I was just leaning into the joke Diplo started.
Most people on Lemmy make their mind up on nothing except "Elon bad memes"
Yeah, the hivemind can get pretty tiresome.
Oh definitely. And an absolute steal at just 2.5 billion a pop.