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Spacex has proven NASA's only purpose is military industrial. It is a money pit with poor results per dollar spent. National security has been made the only e
by edoo 8y ago
Spacex has proven NASA's only purpose is military industrial. It is a money pit with poor results per dollar spent. National security has been made the only excuse for the SLS.
- ForHackernews 8y agoNASA has successfully landed eight spacecraft on the surface of Mars, millions of kilometers away. Nobody else (not the Soviets, not the ESA, certainly not SpaceX) has done it even once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landings_on_extraterrestrial_bodies#Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landings_on_extraterre...
- saiya-jin 8y agotrue... and their budget for all this? timeframes?
- omilu 8y agoSpaceX is able to do things cheaper and faster than NASA because NASA as a federal government agency is encumbered by insane bureaucracy that gums up everything. I imagine rules for procurement, IT and hiring specifically makes an already difficult job orders of magnitude more difficult.