Pigs may not be able to fly but soon we'll get proof of pork barrels being able to do so.
What does SLS add to the already existing panoply of launchers, other than revenues for those companies which stood to lose out on the retirement of the Space Shuttle? Why is this thing set to dump SSMEs which were designed for reuse into the ocean after a single launch? Did they at least fix the problems with those o-rings which caused the loss of an orbiter before using derivatives of those SRBs on this launcher?
What does SLS add to the already existing panoply of launchers, other than revenues for those companies which stood to lose out on the retirement of the Space Shuttle? Why is this thing set to dump SSMEs which were designed for reuse into the ocean after a single launch? Did they at least fix the problems with those o-rings which caused the loss of an orbiter before using derivatives of those SRBs on this launcher?