What we are experiencing is the purposeful wasting of taxpayer dollars by a set of cronies. No schedule is met, no price point too large. The SLS is just there to enrich Beoing and ULA. Expendable rockets, blah! Russian engines, blah! Stupid capsule that needs parachutes to land on the water, BLAH! The SpaceX Dragon capsule was designed to land propulsively, but it was NASA's requirement that it land with parachutes because -get this- "that's how we always did it"! This is as much NASA's fault as it is it's cronies; they fail to have the desire to actually explore and piss away our tax dollars on stupid things (SLS) that are designed not to work. Just look at Beings Dreamliner, all it had to do was get to the ISS, and it barely was able to reach orbit.  This is Boeing! The Dreamliner is supposed to be it's flagship! It failed miserably, on our dime. If Beoing can't do it, maybe SpaceX or SNA could use some of those funds and actually get us somewhere.