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New Arstechnica dropped
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/former-nasa-official-on-trying-to-stop-sls-there-was-just-such-visible-hostility/

Ars: So how did we end up in this situation, in which NASA is modernizing the shuttle and flying most of the Moon mission on a single rocket like NASA did during the Apollo program?

Garver: There's a lot of people in the space community that believe you have to do things this way to get the political support. And in many ways that has borne out. I have said many times, (former NASA Administrator) Mike Griffin was very honest and open about the development of Constellation. It was to retain these jobs. It was to do this, in these contracts, where you could get funding. I can see why engineers think that's the way to work the system. But I think it's backwards politically. These are public funds. What we build should align with the national interest, not just a couple of people who will get us near-term funding.

Ars: A decade or so after all of this, how are you feeling about the future of US spaceflight?

Garver: I'm really positive about the future of space. The last decade has exceeded my expectations largely because of SpaceX. I just want to be clear about that. I couldn't have imagined, as I said in the book, that we would have something like a Starship as far along in the testing as it is today. I really hoped they could get Falcon Heavy before SLS, because that had been announced, and they were starting to work on it. And it was all their own money.

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