Some stakeholders are asking if there are better alternatives to the Space Launch System, whose construction is behind schedule and billions over budget. - NBCNewsMACH
, which included an effort to build an Apollo-style crew capsule named Orion that would be launched on a rocket named Ares I. Additionally, NASA would build a giant cargo rocket called Ares V to send lunar landers, crew habitats and other hardware to the moon.
NASA astronaut Terry Virts is seen here inside of the International Space Station's Cupola module on May 24, 2015.after it fell behind schedule and went over budget. The move sparked outrage among some members of Congress, including then-Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, then-Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., then a member and now chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which controls the federal budget.
blamed the agency and Boeing for sloppy expenditure tracking, questionable performance reviews that awarded Boeing millions of extra dollars and the granting of contract extensions without proper oversight.Laura Seward Forczyk, founder of the Atlanta-based space consulting firm Astralytical, blames these problems on so-called cost-plus contracts, in which NASA pays SLS contractors for all project expenses plus a fee that allows them to earn a profit even if there are cost overruns or delays.
NASA uses a different approach with the fees it pays SpaceX and Northrop Grumman to use their rockets for supply runs to the ISS: Cost overruns and delays are paid for not by NASA but by the companies themselves.
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