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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 0 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

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[–] ardvarcus 3 points -1 points (+2|-3) ago 

Space is hard. Japan can't do it. China can't do it. India can't do it. They don't have the "right stuff" (i.e., white Christian men).

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[–] Gayzmcgee ago 

If only the (((strings))) were cut.

Oh, what we'd achieve...

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[–] GreatWhiteNorth 0 points 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.

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[–] Broc_Lia 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

The problem isn't that NASA has too many restrictions, it's that they have no purpose as an organisation.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 0 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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[–] GreatWhiteNorth 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's both.

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[–] Fullmetal ago 

India can't run a call center. Why do you think they'll make it to the Moon?

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[–] ardvarcus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

"Chinks ... in ... spaaaaaaaace!"

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[–] tom9152 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

China's going to Mars too

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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

Okay... and what's it going to get them? Shitty science experiments to discover more efficient ways to burn money in a vaccuum?

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[–] GreatWhiteNorth 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Mining on the Moon.

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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

... costs more than mining on earth. Still a net loss for them.