I was just watching SpaceX practicing a heavy lift rocket takeoff, remarked to my friend: “if NASA had started out as a private enterprise we would probably be exploring Pluto by now.”
“if NASA had started out as a private enterprise we would probably be exploring Pluto by now.”
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Its because of NASA and others that we are not exploring the stars now. See Project Orion, killed in 1964 for lack of political will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)