"I think they will not be over the moon about the outcome, " he said.

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"Once the reactors are removed, to put the ship back in any shape to where it still resembles a ship the cost would be over the moon, " said Maus.

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Sir Tom's cousin Dorothy Woodward, of Caerphilly, south Wales, said: "He will be absolutely over the moon".

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The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.

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