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it still really irks me that NASA themselves recognized that the Saturn-inspired SLS was superior to the shuttle-derived, but they went with the latter anyways so that they could keep shuttle contractors happy.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/545101main_11-05_HEC_Formulation_Plan.pdf

https://youtu.be/ZNZx208bw0g
>..."the liquid oxygen rp1 Saturn 5 style rocket was superior and the big reason that they chose shuttle-derived was because of this and I think that is actually the reality of what happened that NASA would have preferred the Saturn 5 version and they kind of felt like they had to choose this version because of the direction they got from Congress"

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