NASA’s costly rocket program could be the last time the agency mounts such an effort, according to some former NASA officials and space industry executives, as private space companies attempt to build cheaper vehicles more quickly.
Next month, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans another round of tests for a rocket built under its Space Launch System program, as the agency’s moon-rocket effort is called, and other hardware. NASA intends to use SLS rockets as part of missions to return astronauts to the lunar surface, and later this year, plans an uncrewed test flight of an SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft it will blast to orbit.
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