Heritage Hardware Key To NASA Heavy-Lifter Affordability

HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — NASA managers are relying on hardware developed for other human-spaceflight programs to flatten the development budget on the planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) to squeeze it within a spending cap of $1.2 billion a year. Todd May, the SLS program manager here at NASA’s...

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