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> Funding doesn't make things happen. Go ahead and land on the moon without spending any money on it, then. I'll wait.
by caconym_ 1y ago
> Funding doesn't make things happen.
Go ahead and land on the moon without spending any money on it, then.
I'll wait.
- chrisco255 1y agoYou can have all the money in the world and never land on the moon. All but one of the richest countries in human history have ever landed humans on the moon. The USSR had plenty of funding for its space program, but it couldn't land on the moon. In the 1960s it cost as much as $100,000/kilogram to send a payload to outer space. Today Falcon Heavy does it for $1500/kilogram. SpaceX has a fraction of NASA's budget, and certainly in its early days as they proved out the Falcon design, were running on less than $2 billion in funding. That's because the right people were placed in the right positions.
- caconym_ 1y agoWithout funding, America would not have landed on the moon.