The US Senate passed the 'Big, Beautiful Bill,' allocating $10 billion to NASA's Artemis program, aimed at returning humans to the moon by the decade's end. Elon Musk opposes this funding, advocating instead for Mars colonization and highlighting the inefficiency of single-use rockets like the Space Launch System (SLS). Musk claims that the SLS rockets are a financial waste as they are not reusable. He criticized the spending bill as burdensome for taxpayers and called for opposition to it by the public.
The SLS rockets completely fly in the face of Musk's vision for space travel, as his company mainly relies on reusable rockets during crewed missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
Musk has blasted both the use of billion-dollar, single-use rockets and the president's controversial spending bill as a waste of taxpayer money. 'Fundamental issue with SLS is that it's not reusable, which means that a billion-dollar rocket is blown up every launch!' the billionaire wrote on X in 2020.
On June 3, Musk called the Big, Beautiful Bill a 'disgusting abomination' and urged Americans to contact their representatives to oppose it, citing how it would leave the US budget with more 'crushing' debt.
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