New contract unlikely to significantly reduce SLS costs

by Jeff FoustOctober 13, 2023October 13, 2023

NASA's inspector general concluded that a planned 50% cost reduction for the SLS Block 1B by shifting to a services contract is "highly unrealistic." Credit: NASA

NASA’s plans to buy future launches of the Space Launch System as a service are unlikely to achieve hoped-for cost savings, the agency’s inspector general concluded, recommending NASA keep its options open for alternative launch vehicles.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The... More by Jeff Foust