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Is NASA a single guy that their brainpower should focus on select problems? Why not raise their budget to expand and hire hardware specialists?
US had never had problems hiring literal Nazis to spearhead their space program, whats stopping them from hiring more now?
Why is outsourced good more important than collective good?
Are you guys gonna bitch about this in like a decade like how all your healthcare, infrastructer, manufacturing, agriculture and technology being controlled by some company that is pulling the strings in the government.
Of course you are. It's stupid of me to even ask.
But hey, you do you.
To be clear, I want way more NASA funding. The Space Force getting double the NASA budget makes my blood boil. The current gov is shafting NASA with a bad budget and an idiot for an interim admin.
Their budget sucks because of self-interested, entrenched congresspeople who don't care about science or progress and only care about the same old jobs in their district for reelection. And vindictive officials who cut jobs at Goddard and HQ because they're in blue districts. And a government trying to "starve the beast" and burn down anything they can.
In that environment, the limited NASA budget is stuck in a zero-sum game, so they should spin off whatever easy stuff they can to focus their limited resources on pushing the boundaries.
Thales Alenia built the ISS USOS. Boeing flies ISS. Axiom, Vast, Voyager, and more are building the next American space stations. What's the difference?