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SLS costs

Amount spent on SLS thus far: $14 billion
Amount spent on Orion thus far: $16 billion
FY2019 SLS/Orion budget: $4,093 million up from $4,045 million in 2018. 🚀

And yet people within NASA are complaining about the lack of money for SLS/Orion. 🙄
— Laura Seward Forczyk ✨🌙💫🚀 (@LauraForczyk) February 18, 2019

Note typo of omitting the word million on the 2018-19 budgets so $4.093 billion in 2019 and $4.045 billion in 2018.
SLS is the giant NASA rocket that will be outperformed by the new SpaceX and Blue Origin rockets. Cost assumed to be $1.5 billion per rocket but a guess as none yet launched. Orion is NASA's Deep Space (moon) space ship. It is not clear if one has yet been completed. Also, note that the yearly costs of either rocket tech-welfare program would pay for Trump's wall.

Posted by: 3dc 2019-02-19

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