You can go read this press release from NASA that is trying to figure out a way to claim that a test that ran for 67 seconds instead of eight minutes is a success.
I'd snark that this is like claiming that a flight that crashed short of the runway was a success because it almost made it, but that would be unfair. By comparison, they didn't even make it out of the traffic pattern.
I would not bet heavily on the Boeing-managed SLS project continuing on.
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Well they claims a fail of one engine but it didn't blow up so that a big thing.
However they had no report of what exactly failed.. kinda important.
When I compare that to the current Spacex stacks that have typical
3-5X reuse at many minutes plus test runs to each use it seem they
(boeing ) have a ways to go.
However the idea is appealing however they need to get their stuff
together.
Eck!
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