https://www.voanews.com/science-health/nasas-boeing-moon-rocket-ground-test-cut-short
Reuters
January 16, 2021 08:10 PM
WASHINGTON - All four engines of the core stage of NASA's deep space
exploration rocket built by Boeing were ignited for the first time Saturday,
but only briefly.
Space Launch System’s (SLS) 212-foot-tall core stage roared to life at
4:27 p.m. local time for just more than a minute —
well short of the roughly four minutes engineers needed to stay on track for
the rocket's first launch this November.
The expendable super heavy-lift SLS is three years behind schedule
and nearly $3 billion over budget.
Critics have long argued for NASA to retire the rocket’s shuttle-era core
technologies, which have launch costs of $1 billion or more per mission,
in favor of newer commercial alternatives that promise lower costs.
By comparison, it costs as little as $90 million to fly the massive but less
powerful Falcon Heavy rocket designed and manufactured by Elon Musk's
SpaceX, and some $350 million per launch for United Launch Alliance's legacy
Delta IV Heavy.
We the tax payers don’t count, common sense is out
The Congress is check-out high on power
Boeing is stoned on hubris feeding on arrogance based on self accolades,
Boeing Boondoggles are the result…
https://time.com/5752163/starliner-launch-boeing/