I suspect that NASA will be a speed bump to moon colonization at some point. They are such a bureaucratic mess they can’t do anything near on schedule or budget, but their employees keep drawing a paycheck!
NASA needs to decide, do we want to be relevant to space travel and establishing a base on the moon and going to Mars or be a works program for our employees?
NASA needs to decide, do we want to be relevant to space travel and establishing a base on the moon and going to Mars or be a works program for our employees?
Great questions !
And this is why SpaceX has been doing better than NASA recently. It is not a works program, and doesn't have to worry about spreading the dollars to different congressional districts to get funding for their projects.