Quote:And as I said if you actually read what I wrote, the DoD did do a nice job. Back then. That was when they had competition from the Soviet Union. What have they done since 1991? They fought some wars using technology developed pre-1991. The current DoD discontinued production of the world best fighter plane and instead we have the F-35 fiasco.


 

NASA does not launch communication satellites. The Shuttle was the last thing launched from KSC. The communication satellites are mostly launched from foreign countries these days (it's a lot cheaper). Those launched in the US are from Air Force launch pads. Private companies developed and make the rockets. NASA does arrange the manufacture of interplanetary probes and earth monitoring satellites, and receives and analyzes the data they acquire. It does not launch them.