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The primary design objective for this system, as well as the cancelled programs NASA wasted billions on over the last four years, is to: Spend the same money i
by marze 15y ago
The primary design objective for this system, as well as the cancelled programs NASA wasted billions on over the last four years, is to:
Spend the same money in all the congressional districts that the Shuttle program spent money in.
$18B is 50 times what NASA has paid out to SpaceX so far, and SpaceX already has already developed a working rocket. Congress could fund 50 SpaceX-like firms for that same amount.
Instead, Congress is attempting to cut the money NASA has requested for commercial crew transport.
- russell_h 15y agoMy favorite part is that the first quote in the article is "This launch system will create good-paying American jobs". When an election isn't coming up they at least put that below the nationalistic/visionary stuff.
- nobody314159 15y agoEven worse - you know that they originally wrote "well paid jobs" and a team of media image consultants decided that "good-paying American jobs" sounded more homely and folksy and would play better in social groups XYZ in congressional districts ABC.