NASA's SLS Program Faces Budget Woes and Delays.
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NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has reported that the conversion of shuttle-era solid rocket boosters and engines for use on the Space Launch System (SLS) has cost the agency billions more and taken years longer than originally planned. The contracts, covering development and production of the boosters and engines, originally had a combined value of $7 billion over 14 years. The cost-plus contracts are now worth at least $13.1 billion over 25 years, of which $8.6 billion has been spent to date. The OIG reported that the overruns have the effect of increasing the cost of a single SLS mission through Artemis 4 by $144 million, to $4.2 billion each.
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