NASA's SLS Roadshow Heads For Indiana. The First of 50 Or Just A Stunt?

Interesting. @NASA is sending a @NASA_SLS PR team to the home state of @VP Pence - who is also the former governor. https://t.co/zoMOpUoxev

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) September 19, 2017

#NASASLS is headed to Indiana to see how Indiana companies are helping to build @NASA's new rocket! http://pic.twitter.com/Zfi6FY3dDG

— NASA_SLS (@NASA_SLS) September 18, 2017

Keith's note: I do not recall the NASA SLS mafia heading out to a specific state to talk to see how local companies are helping out on SLS - at least not recently. Is this just a one-off thing to curry favor in the Vice President's home state - or are they going to start doing this for every state in the union? And are the going to do this for other NASA programs? If this is a national effort then that would be an interesting way to demonstrate just how wide an industrial base is required to build large space hardware. But if this is just a dog and pony stunt to kiss up to the VP then its value will be minimal. This also smells like the beginning of a slow motion effort to assure the SLS faction that NASA has got their back.

Checking this page at NASA.gov you get this list of companies that support SLS/Orion and GSDO *(Ground Systems Development and Operations) in Indiana. So there is certainly a there - there - as there is across the country.

So NASA, what is the next state that the SLS road show will be visiting?

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