Spaceflight

970 readers

20 users here now

Your one-stop shop for spaceflight news and discussion.

All serious posts related to spaceflight are welcome! JAXA, ISRO, CNSA, Roscosmos, ULA, RocketLab, Firefly, Relativity, Blue Origin, etc. (Arca and Pythom, if you must).

Other related space communities:

Related meme community:

!spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works

llamacoffee@lemmy.world

White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let me guess: SpaceX will be asked to pick up the slack?

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

It's often chosen since it's far more economical. The answer is usually money

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

For launch, SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin seem like the next in line. For crew, SpaceX is currently really the only option.