Quote:What are you trying to say re: NASA and Space X? NASA is impeded by a campaign to defund science not regulation or red tape. Just money and the politics behind it.

 

You need to respond to what I wrote, not what you imagined I wrote.


 

NASA's failure comes most prominently in the manned space program, which is NASA's primary objective. The failure to develop an improved human launch program has been ongoing through numerous administrations, Pub and Dem. We have not had a new manned space launch vehicle since the Shuttle in 1982. It's not a funding problem or a regulation problem, but the typical stagnation of a monopoly with no competition. 34 years of stagnation.

 

I could have used pretty much any government agency as an example, but NASA is the most familiar. All government agencies are monopolies, and almost none have competition.


 

My comment had absolutely nothing to do with your cherished Global Warming group, which is just a very small part of NASA's budget (although frankly, it also hasn't done anything significant this century to justify it's continued existence).


 

In fairness, NASA has designed and built several excellent scientific spacecraft, so NASA funding is not a total waste.

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