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It certainly would have been far more effective for NASA to spend money on private companies instead of spending those billions on their Constellation program.
by cubefox 2y ago
It certainly would have been far more effective for NASA to spend money on private companies instead of spending those billions on their Constellation program. Even today, NASA invests far more money into the in-house project SLS/Orion than into rockets by private space companies.
So there was enough money, it was just spent inefficiently by a government agency.
- Gravityloss 2y agoYes, definitely, but that's politically hard though. Ie the NASA administrator can't do that on their own. EELV:s had supposed "black zones". Ares I was the thing. And so on. Even when Dragon and Cygnus were a thing, SLS had to be developed.