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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not really.

The NASA budget has been slashed for decades on a row and is currently a tiny amount compared to what it was before. That they still manage to do what they do is half a miracle in on itself.

It's so bad that a 3 percent of the military budget given to NASA would double it's budget instantly.

With that in mind, I would put this on the military industrial complex

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My point was that spending on NASA isn't why we don't have health care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ah.. point taken, then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The funny thing is that NASA contracts the same companies as the military anyways (in the modern day, at least)

NASA Prime Contractors Aerojet Rocketdyne, Boeing, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman currently have over 3,800 suppliers contributing to Orion, the SLS rocket, and the lunar spaceport at Kennedy.

It gets slightly less funny when you realize that that's the reason Nasa's latest rocket made primarily from Space Shuttle parts is way more expensive than basically any commercial rocket. Essentially Congress only agrees to fund NASA if it means they also get to fund these military contractors.