Well apparently Elon Musk has shamed NASA into doing it's job and actually exploring space, something it gave up on way back once they got the space shuttle program going. A few exploratory satellites but no real effort at all to move man deeper into space since the 80s. Then SpaceX said "tired of waiting, we'll do it ourselves..." and NASA woke up.
Can a big government bureaucracy beat a small buy agile interloper to the prize? We shall see.
6 posted on 12/08/2017 7:42:17 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
To be fair, NASA’s mission is driven by politicians and going into space is expensive. We just haven’t funded NASA like we did for the Apollo missions.
8 posted on 12/08/2017 7:52:40 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)