{"id":1235068,"date":"2025-02-26T09:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235068"},"modified":"2025-02-26T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:52:48","slug":"long-time-advocate-of-sls-rocket-says-its-time-to-find-an-off-ramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235068","title":{"rendered":"Long-time advocate of SLS rocket says it\u2019s time to find an \u201coff-ramp\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The lights may be starting to go out for NASA&#8217;s Space Launch System program.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, one of the Republican space policy leaders most consistently opposed to commercial heavy lift rockets over the last decade\u2014as an alternative to NASA&#8217;s large SLS rocket\u2014has changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need an off-ramp for reliance on the SLS,&#8221; said Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, in written testimony. He issued the statement in advance of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.house.gov\/hearings?ContentRecord_id=13015EC2-D598-4AEC-98CE-83836D8AE62A\">a hearing about US space policy<\/a>, and the future of NASA&#8217;s Artemis Moon program, before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/long-time-advocate-of-sls-rocket-says-its-time-to-find-an-off-ramp\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/long-time-advocate-of-sls-rocket-says-its-time-to-find-an-off-ramp\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lights may be starting to go out for NASA&#8217;s Space Launch System program. On Wednesday, one of the Republican space policy leaders most consistently opposed to commercial heavy lift rockets over the last decade\u2014as an alternative to NASA&#8217;s large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}