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    Ted Cruz reminds us why NASA’s rocket is called the “Senate Launch System”

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    2. mojo276 on

      Years and years ago the whole program became a jobs program instead of a space program. IMO its continued existence has been just to continue jobs for the states that benefit from it and not seriously reach space.

    3. AFloppyZipper on

      Honestly should just divert all of that into a couple billions’ worth of starship factories and launch pads. A $1 billion SLS launchpad can instead become 10+ starship launchpads.

    4. vandilx on

      SLS has been Pork-barrel spending for decades now.

      Keeping the aerospace companies infused with taxpayer cash so that the companies lobby to keep the senator in office. Rinse and repeat until the senator retires with their golden parachute pension.

      They don’t care about space exploration, understanding the Universe, or solving humanity’s problems with space research…. They just want vacation homes, yachts, and to die comfortably somewhere pleasant.

    5. helicopter-enjoyer on

      It’s also the most capable rocket in existence, the cheapest crewed Moon rocket we’ve ever had, and the center point of the Lunar architecture that the experts support.

      Ya’ll gotta stop letting a blogger like Eric Berger turn you against space exploration

    6. Tumbleweed-Artistic on

      He is about 6 months too late to save just about anything involving NASA. I think the odds of the US landing people on the moon in the next 5 years is laughable at this point thanks to Trump and Russ Vought.

    7. Decronym on

      Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

      |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[COTS](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8fxwe “Last usage”)|[Commercial Orbital Transportation Services contract](https://www.nasa.gov/cots)|
      | |Commercial/Off The Shelf|
      |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
      | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
      |[EUS](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8f2vj “Last usage”)|Exploration Upper Stage|
      |[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8fnpy “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
      |[NRHO](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8gaed “Last usage”)|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit|
      |[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8hffj “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
      |[TLI](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8hffj “Last usage”)|Trans-Lunar Injection maneuver|
      |[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8hlcz “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|

      |Jargon|Definition|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8i55q “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
      |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8fxwe “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
      |[apohelion](/r/Space/comments/1n7ktr4/stub/nc8el2x “Last usage”)|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around the Sun (when the orbiter is slowest)|

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