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>>12246460
>Tangentially related but once again fuck congress for destroying iconic heritage pieces of the American space program.
Are you referring to the SLS using Shuttle engines even though the production line for new engines is available? Seriously, if it weren't for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, then I would've suspected that Congress was intentionally destroying American space history so the public would have no reference of what a good program is and thus wouldn't call out pork barrel projects.

>>12078025
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>>12078036
You all have a point. NASA should be preserving their history instead of deleting everything like in Apollo. Just in the original "guise" of SLS being a "we gotta make this super heavy rocket ASAP", the reuse of Shuttle engines made some sense. However, now it just seems intentionally wasteful. imo NASA should've went with the Shuttle-C concept, but that design is apparently hated by management due to silly historical reasons.