I’m not against spending taxpayer’s money for space exploration, but it should be spent to reward initiative and risk taking (a la X prize) rather than throwing it away on the bureaucratic, Congress-fellating, “Not Invented Here” ongoing boondoggle festival which is NASA.
I agree. I would revamp NASA and shift a lot of its budget into the military as long as it was mandated for space operations. The rest would go to private sector development in the form of incentives.