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NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era

3 April 2019

Contracts that leave NASA meeting all the extra development costs for its Space Launch System make no sense when firms like SpaceX offer fixed-price flights

Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

3 April 2019

The Trump administration has set NASA an ambitious goal of returning to the moon, but the agency doesn't have enough money or the right spacecraft to achieve this

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NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era

Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

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