“To be clear, we are far from anything being settled, but based on what I’m hearing it seems at least 50-50 that Nasa’s Space Launch System rocket will be canceled.”
-Comment by US space journalist Eric Berger as quoted in an article from The Conversation titled “Trump May Cancel NASA’s Powerful SLS Moon Rocket—What That Would Mean for Elon Musk and the Future of Space Travel.” The bottom line in the story is that SpaceX is not ready to replace the main component of the Artemis program, meaning any attempt to scrap the rocket will most likely scrap U.S. attempts to get back to the Moon before the Chinese.
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