NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars
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#2I think anyone who remotely follows space exploration or NASA knew this.
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#3I have been watching this since 2000. New president comes in, scraps old programs, declares new "vision". NASA does a few incoherent things and the whole thing restarts after a few years. It's pretty sad. I wish they would commit to something and actually finish it.
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#4I have been watching this since 2000. New president comes in, scraps old programs, declares new "vision". NASA does a few incoherent things and the whole thing restarts after a few years. It's pretty sad. I wish they would commit to something and actually finish it.
NASA programs typically span multiple decades and run in the billions of dollars, The political pendulum sways from one side to the other side every 4-8 years, every new administration is looking for ways to cut down taxes. It's amazing they get anything done imho.
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#5such a waste of time and (other ppl's) money.
Re: NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars
#6Bill Nye have a different argument.
https://youtu.be/5ekUbzciyKg
Re: NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars
#7NASA has enough funding, they are just spending it on SLS and Orion(¹). It appears that if they were to pay the "new space" companies to get them to Mars, the money would be enough.
(¹) because Congress wants them to, because ... jobs (as if "new space" companies weren't creating jobs, too... even competitive ones)
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#8they admitted to something that is publicly available to anyone who cares to look? stunning and brave
Re: NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars
#9Bill Nye have a different argument. https://youtu.be/5ekUbzciyKg
Does Bill Nye have any relationship to NASA that would give him more knowledge than what is in this report?
Re: NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars
#10such a waste of time and (other ppl's) money.
Agreed. There's more important things to spend public money on at the moment (like servicing the $20T in debt). Let private companies, like SpaceX, voluntarily spend R&D on it.