[–] AmaleksHairyAss 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
When you're spending over 8 billion dollars will trumps spending power. Nasa wears a hundred shackles, strings attached to every dollar it spends. I won't be surprised if China beats the US to the moon this time around
[–] GreatWhiteNorth 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
China is already doing it. They launch astronauts on they're own rockets to Chinese space stations. The US hasn't launched crews since 2011, and only have a gay "International Space Station" because building one on their own was too hard.
[–] AmaleksHairyAss 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The lack of purpose is directly attributable to the strings. Obama tells them to make nicey nice with the Muslims and look at earth. Bush 2 tells them to make SRS and do spy stuff. Trump tells them to go to the moon and stop looking at earth. No large, serious NASA program survives a presidential election. Nasa has had the budget to do a moon landing every year since the first one if we had stuck to that.
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[–] Fullmetal ago
India can't run a call center. Why do you think they'll make it to the Moon?