Clearly NASA’s goal is not primarily space exploration. Must be something else. What, then?
35 years, $350 billion dollars and about all we have to show for it is a shuttle that we cross our finges for every time it lefits off, and a space station for which we likely paid 75% of the cost, yet call it an international space station.
If you think I’m being too picky, so be it. I think that’s a fair judgement. It’s as fair as mine is.
Look, I’ve voiced my opinion and it’s okay by me if you folks want to come down on me for doing it.
I realize not all the decisions were made by NASA, but the end result is, we’re not getting the job done.
Where’s the technology spin-off today, like the R&D from the sixties gave us. A concerted effort to develop an effort to the moon and beyond would provide great boost to our economy today if we’d get with it.