Long-time advocate of SLS rocket says it’s time to find an “off-ramp”
The lights may be starting to go out for NASA’s Space Launch System program.
On Wednesday, one of the Republican space policy leaders most consistently opposed to commercial heavy lift rockets over the last decade—as an alternative to NASA’s large SLS rocket—has changed his mind.
“We need an off-ramp for reliance on the SLS,” said Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, in written testimony. He issued the statement in advance of a hearing about US space policy, and the future of NASA’s Artemis Moon program, before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
