Originally Posted by
Tango and Cash
It's a political rocket to nowhere. Other than as a jobs and contractor shareholder enrichment program, it serves no purpose..
Sums it up perfectly.
Until humans come up with a much more efficient (& safer!) way of getting to at least orbit; a better vehicle than sticking a relatively tiny payload on top of a heavy fuel laden firework, then space exploration is best left to unmanned probes and commercial operations to satellites. There are far more pressing problems of a terrestrial nature than this expensive nonsense.