She is clearly less than thrilled with the pick of Bill Nelson.

Note the implicit assumption that having an administrator that can get more funding for NASA is intrinsically a good thing.

This new “study” may be the beginning of the end for the program. This graf stuck out, though: “McConnaughey is leading the study for Kathy Lueders, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight. Even before the study’s initiation, McConnaughey had been pushing for the SLS program to become more cost-effective. One goal of this analysis is to find ways for the large NASA rocket to compete effectively with privately developed rockets as part of the agency’s Artemis Moon program.”

No one seems to ask the question: Why should NASA even be attempting to compete with private industry? This is not a proper role of a government agency, but we’ve been stuck in this mode since Shuttle.

This story on SLS is pretty lazy. They don’t question Singer’s statement, or point out that, with her talking about how many people SLS employs in how many states, she is simply reinforcing Garver’s point. And the cost of an SLS flight will never be as low as $800M.