Comment by njarboe

Cost plus contracts are a huge problem for efficient public funding of projects. Also see NASA'a SLS rocket versus SpaceX's falcon heavy. SpaceX's next generation rocket is going to be so far ahead of the SLS in capabilities and cost it is ridiculous to continue the NASA program. I would not be surprised if the SLS program will even survive the first launch of the BFR. Hopefully they will be able to cancel it at that point and use the funds for funding sending people to mars using SpaceX tech.