This is nearly 100% due to NASA having a flat-to-decreased budget over the past 30 years. NASA gives an amazing return on investment, but Congress doesn’t care and NASA is forced to rely on third party companies.
Notice the only time they gave a shit?
Communism was the best thing to happen to NASA. It’s absolutely insane how terrified we are of communism that we’d actually give NASA a nice budget just so we could prove we’re better in a space pissing contest.
I think we need more communism to be afraid of lol
Starve the beast. Even NASA is being sacrificed on the altar of taxes bad, make a billionaire richer instead.
Who would’ve thought defunding would lead to this…
Except the issues aren’t really tied to defunding.
NASA fundamentally changed who bears risk on space projects, pushing the risk to the open market. Legacy aerospace companies have been unable to compete when they have to eat cost overruns. A lot of startups have also been failing as well.
If the market was more mature, with multiple successful SpaceX like companies, this wouldn’t be an issue.
You mean like national security?
Nationalize Space X
Agreed. I’d love to see Elon Musk lose SpaceX. That would be hilarious.
There are some good points in the article and I think some poor comparisons. I have seen examples of what they mention. NASA is still demanding things from companies like a cost plus contract but paying them like a firm fixed price contract. This basically means that the only companies that will succeed in the long run are those that have billionaire funding instead of shareholders. Assuming SpaceX doesn’t have cost overruns is just silly, it’s just that NASA doesn’t see them.
Corpos would never price gouge daddy sam people!
Absoluely no one saw this coming.
