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Former NASA Head Predicts Commercial Rockets Will Beat SLS – ExtremeTech
In a new interview, Bolden spoke of the incredible advances made by commercial spaceflight companies like SpaceX. In fact, he sees a day when the SLS could be mothballed in favor of a more advanced commercial super-heavy-lift rocket.
Charlie Bolden ran NASA from 2009 until early 2017, and before that, he went into space four times as an astronaut. So, when he talks about the Space Launch System (SLS) he oversaw at the agency, you can trust he knows what he’s talking about. In a new interview, Bolden spoke of the incredible advances made by commercial spaceflight companies like SpaceX. In fact, he sees a day when the SLS could be mothballed in favor of a more advanced commercial super-heavy-lift rocket.
Bolden has been supp…
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