This is not my shocked face.

“We don’t launch until it’s right,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in remarks on NASA TV about half an hour after the scrub. “It’s just illustrative that this is a very complicated machine.”

Ya think?

I was always amused when NASA would say that the Shuttle was “the most complex machine in the world,” as though that was a point of pride. One of the many stupid things about the SLS design is that it uses hydrogen from sea level to orbit. Shuttle was down for weeks once with a pesky hydrogen leak. This concept combines all of the worst features of the Shuttle with none of the best. But, hey, it creates lots of jobs.

[Tuesday-morning update]

So this ended up being another failed wet dress rehearsal.

I wonder how much pressure they feel to get to orbit before Starship?

[Wednesday-morning update]

The real space race.

Look at who the Chinese are copying. They’re not stupid enough to want to build anything resembling SLS.