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Why NASA Is Spending Half a Billion Dollars on a Canceled Rocket
- bediger 16y agoI hate to write this down. I was born in 1961, and I watched all the Apollo launches, moon landings and splashdowns. I got a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I worked for 2 large defense/aerospace companies. NASA spends the money in the same form of "white welfare" that DoD spends its money. DoD and to a lesser extent, NASA, exist to funnel taxpayer money to a few large corporations, and a flock of smaller, less publicly recognized corporations. No competition exists between these companies. No real government oversight exists either, as a large portion of the money is "black budget".