Incapability due to regulatory and bureaucratic burden is real incapability. and frankly, while we have made some technical advances, we have also suffered sev

Incapability due to regulatory and bureaucratic burden is real incapability. and frankly, while we have made some technical advances, we have also suffered severe logistical, political, and capital losses, especially in context of the aforementioned bureaucratic and regulatory burden. We have also suffered, IMO, loss of capability in our elite engineering echelon. The F-35 is a perfect example of what I’m describing. Technically brilliant in some ways, sure. Pretty lame and terrible in others. Debatably an advance over previous generations of aircraft, at the very least. Today’s NASA is a completely different animal than the NASA which put a man on the Moon. I don’t see SpaceX doing it either. Not today. Maybe tomorrow. Let’s wait and see.