On the day of its next launch attempt, NASA's Moon-bound Space Launch System is dealing with a fuel leak on the launchpad.
the agency, are higher than usual. If NASA can get it off the ground and demonstrate its flightworthiness during the Artemis I mission, the skyscraper-sized craft will form the backbone of the process of returning American astronauts to the Moon this decade, much as the Saturn V did during the Apollo program.
Detractors, though, say the rocket's flabbergasting $4.1 billion launch cost and outdated specs mean it'll never represent a practical broadly replicable path to lunar exploration or settlement, especially when SpaceX's also-currently-in-development Starship could feasibly accomplish much — or more — than the SLS on a tighter budget.space journalist Eric Berger this morning. "Well, it is very efficient, energy density-wise.
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