'There is not another test flight planned if this doesn't go perfectly.'
Now, she says that contrast may soon become apparent to the public.
"It will become inevitably embarrassing if Starship is launching dozens of times a year like Falcon 9 is," Garver posited, referring to SpaceX'sGarver offered two "embarrassing" scenarios for NASA: first that SpaceX keeps operating at comparatively lower prices, and second that the SLS simply doesn't perform as planned.
"So then what? You're going to put people on one in two years if the first one didn't go well? I just have never heard anyone talk about that plan," Garver said. It's certainly not outside the realm of possibility — and we'll know whether the latter of her predictions is correct very soon, given that the SLS long-awaited test launch is scheduled for August 29.
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