Con-gress gives NASA about $3Bn a year to build SLS
But gives it nothing to build actual payloads (except Orion) to put on it.
Is this a possible architecture to get to Mars? Yes.
Will Con-gress hand over that much money to Boeing (the company that redesigned ISS 3 times and made a profit on every one) to do so.
How dumb would they have to be?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
