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Experts say China's Mars rover mission will benefit the military
- melling 6y agoNASA’s budget is $22 billion, while the Defense Department is $718 billion. It would be nice if we could divert a little more DOD money into dual use that benefited space exploration, AI research, robotics, basic research, etc. Sure, we could simply increase those civilian budgets but for some reason we don’t see the value.
- pinewurst 6y agoWhy don't we just spend the existing budgets in a better way than funding SLS, Lunar Gateway, etc? Those sorts of boondoggles are just noise for the DoD but are critical losses for NASA (setting aside the social value of keeping a significant percentage of Alabama and Mississippi off welfare...:)