NASA budget proposal draws strong criticism – SpaceNews

[rbanffy]

https://spacenews.com/nasa-budget-proposal-draws-strong-criticism/

[xqcgrek2]

Getting rid of SLS is great, but they're cutting deep space exploration and astrophysics by 2/3 which is profoundly dumb. That's something that can't be done by the commercial sector.

[CGMthrowaway → xqcgrek2]

Why not?

[avmich → CGMthrowaway]

Hard to make a business model?

[KingLancelot]

It gets rid of SLS which costs $4 BILLION PER LAUNCH.

[rbanffy → KingLancelot]

It's in part good, but the replacement isn't ready. Without it the whole crewed lunar exploration stack has nothing to ride on.