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It should be clear that the protection NASA had as a pork delivery vehicle has been breached. Witness the slaughter at JPL and, more generally, attack on resea
by pfdietz 1y ago
It should be clear that the protection NASA had as a pork delivery vehicle has been breached. Witness the slaughter at JPL and, more generally, attack on research spending in general.
Now that this has happened, expect a future democrat administration to have its revenge on human spaceflight centers in red states. Given the rot that has set in under that politically protected status, I can't see this as a bad thing.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> expect a future democrat administration to have its revenge on human spaceflight centers in red states Make Puerto Rico a state and move Cape Canaveral there.
- notahacker 1y agoThat would be interesting. But they don't even have to do anything radical, just spend more in California where there's already a major space centre and less in Florida, Texas or Alabama...