Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 224 66.1%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.1%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 21.8%
  • Total voters
    339
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The vast majority of this was expected. Make "Gateway" a commercial endeavor. The Mars sample return wasn't expected till the 2030's by then Elon & SpaceX hopes to have humans on the way there.




 
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LouderVol said:
I think we still need the small base somewhere. I totally get jettisoning SLS, eff them.
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I heard a podcast a month or so ago and the guest was I think a former NASA employee they were comparing SpaceX & NASA. He talked about there are NASA employees closing in on retirement and the only project they have ever worked on the last 20 years is SLS and it's only flew once. Compare that to some SpaceX employees who in the last 20 years started with Falcon 9 and have now moved to Starship.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
I heard a podcast a month or so ago and the guest was I think a former NASA employee they were comparing SpaceX & NASA. He talked about there are NASA employees closing in on retirement and the only project they have ever worked on the last 20 years is SLS and it's only flew once. Compare that to some SpaceX employees who in the last 20 years started with Falcon 9 and have now moved to Starship.
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Meanwhile, while SLS has only launched that one time, SpaceX is often launching 3 Falcon 9‘s PER WEEK.
 
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