This article is pure propaganda, written to help justify to the American public the ludicrous pork-barrel spending that the SLS program really is. It's a "feel good" article designed to make your <i>feel good</i> about your taxpayer dollars being set on fire.<p>It is chock full of emotional words and phrases to put you in the right frame of mind: "electric", "very emotional", "gratifying", "exciting", "love them all", "amazing", etc...<p>You know what's amazing? The real story, buried down in paragraph #35:<p><i>"NASA doubled down on the RS-25 in May 2020 when it awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1.79 billion contract to produce 18 more RS-25 engines, on top of the six already on order. The combined price between this new RS-25 contract and the earlier one—resulting in a $146 million tab for each single-use SLS engine—has raised critical eyebrows."</i><p>For reference, $146M -- per engine -- is three times what it costs to launch a payload to space on the Falcon 9. And there's FOUR of those engines burnt up to launch the SLS each time.<p>It's not electric, or gratifying, or exciting. It's madness.