{"id":123215,"date":"2018-01-31T23:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123215"},"modified":"2018-10-12T07:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T05:09:04","slug":"boeing-struggles-to-meet-production-goals-for-nasas-next-big-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123215-boeing-struggles-to-meet-production-goals-for-nasas-next-big-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Boeing struggles to meet production goals for NASA\u2019s next big rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s inspector general has released a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oig.nasa.gov\/docs\/IG-19-001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on the development of the agency\u2019s Space Launch System (SLS).<\/p>\n<p>The report found that NASA\u2019s rocket will cost far more than expected to build and will not be ready to launch by the initial expected date of June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector general\u2019s report found that many of the development cost increases and delays were due to Boeing\u2019s inability to meet production goals.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing was meant to deliver the SLS core stage in June 2017, but it now only expects to supply the component in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCost increases and schedule delays of Core Stage development can be traced largely to management, technical, and infrastructure issues driven by Boeing\u2019s poor performance,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Space Launch System is designed to ferry astronauts on long-range missions to the Moon and Mars, and will be instrumental in realising the agency\u2019s plans to build a lunar space station.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123208-south-african-roads-set-to-get-much-worse.html\">South African roads set to get much worse<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s inspector general has released a\u00a0report\u00a0on the development of the agency\u2019s Space Launch System (SLS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":123216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25668,5832,25669,25670],"class_list":["post-123215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-boeing","tag-nasa","tag-production-costs","tag-space-launch-system-sls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}