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>>12634537
totally a real tweet btw

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/rocket-scientist-says-that-boeing-squelched-work-on-propellant-depots/
tl:dr - propellant depots increase the amount of payload a rocket can carry beyond low Earth orbit. This is a threat to SLS because it is banking on being the sole rocket that can carry heavy payloads to space. Shelby is a huge proponent of SLS and benefits greatly from its existence. So he used his Senate powers to stop the development of propellant depots.

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>>11274407
Indeed.

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