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Long-time advocate of SLS rocket says it’s time to find an “off-ramp” | "A revised Artemis campaign plan should be a high priority for the new NASA Administrator."


“A revised Artemis campaign plan should be a high priority for the new NASA Administrator.”…

On Wednesday, one of the Republican space policy leaders most consistently opposed to commercial heavy lift rockets over the last decade—as an alternative to NASA's large SLS rocket—has changed his mind. "Ideally, NASA should be able to buy heavy lift services to send payloads to the Moon—up to about 45 metric tons to 'trans-lunar injection' which is about the same performance as the SLS Block 2," Pace wrote. In terms of NASA's budget, to justify its funding or seek more resources, Pace says the agency needs to innovate more and that traditional programs of record should be used "only as a last resort."

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