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You'd need to factor in the prestige and national morale costs , plus the political consequences.
by grotorea 3y ago
You'd need to factor in the prestige and national morale costs , plus the political consequences.
- pfdietz 3y agoBy "political consequences" you mean "this might interrupt our gravy train". Of course that was the real reason.
- grotorea 3y agoI was thinking "it would look bad on the polls" but yeah that too.
- supertrope 3y agoHaving a schoolteacher become an astronaut and broadcasting a disaster on live TV kids back the US Space Program tremendously. Also the Cold War ended so the motivation behind funding dual use aerospace technologies weakened. (The same technology that can propel astronaut capsules and satellites into space and recover them can also launch nukes).