You do realize that $30 million would not pay NASA's water bill.
All of NASA's hardware was built by private industry, lowest bidder!
Every launch vehicle and satellite the U.S. has put in space was built by private industry, lowest bidder!
I'm sorry! I can't deal with the magnitude of this ignorance.
It is pretty amazing, but I'm not clear on why you call it ignorance. Read the whole article and it might make more sense to you. Or go into more detail about what you see as the ignorance and I'll have a better idea of what you are saying.