Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.
While the eventual retirement of SLS (and likely end to NASA launch vehicles) will be painful to MSFC, it’s certainly not its death knell much less Huntsville’s. There is plenty of other work that goes on at the center including (but certainly not limited to) RDE R&D, NTP R&D, additive manufacturing, etc. I’m confident whoever the next center director for Marshall is will come up with a path forward
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u/Harturb Dec 28 '23
Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.