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Yet, NASA plans to use them on the new Space Launch System (SLS). Lobbyism?


Pretty much, yes. They want to keep the people making those engines employed. I think there might be some talk about eventually going to a renewed F-1 engine with a much reduced complexity and greater thrust than the original. There is a reason why the SLS is also known as the Senate Launch System.


> They want to keep the people making those engines employed.

It's more like wanting the companies that make them more profitable by requiring no retooling. I don't buy the "it's about the workers" thing.




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