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I can only see this setting things back, mainly because of all the talent, methods and previous effort already gone into constellation. It's probably good in t
by robryan 17y ago
I can only see this setting things back, mainly because of all the talent, methods and previous effort already gone into constellation.
It's probably good in the long run though to work towards privatizing it all, it seems so political the way it is now, it seems like the support for the program comes more from certain states making tax dollars off the program rather than a real thirst to explore the unknown.
- hga 17y agoThat's the fallacy of sunk costs; the last time I checked Constellation was pushing back its schedule a year for every year. I gather there's been a bit more progress since then, but the Aries rockets are thoroughly misbegotten and killing those projects off won't hurt one bit in the long run, I suspect. And NASA has been a public works project ever since the end of Apollo, there's nothing new there.