Letter: NASA program is an incredibly inefficient use of funding

Now, I’m just as much a fan of going to space as anyone else. In fact, I’m probably more of an enthusiast about space travel than many. But the SLS program is an incredibly inefficient use of funding.For FY18, the SLS project was granted $2.15 billion in funding. If we assume that the project’s annual budget stays exactly the same until 2030, when the first of the largest version of the vehicle is expected to fly, the project will eat up $25.8 billion, in addition to the $11.9