NASA, under Hanses, has fudged the “global warming” dat, in lockstep with Phil Jones over at East Anglia.
The real problem is that because NASA is a government program, it eventually got swallowed by the Left.
The answer, as always, is to defund the Left. This would include (but not limited to):
1. Lawyers
2. Universities - even the “hard” sciences are infested
3. Welfare/Medicaid
4. “Affordable housing” advocates
5. Ethanol for fuel
6. Alternative energy subsidies
7. Farm price supports
8. “Affirmative” action
After that, we can cut our military. But we may not need to.
NASA, 1961-1980, paid for itself about 6-20 times over in basic research that had many practical applications. Since 1980, the warmists at NASA have caused NASA to become unprofitable to run. Again, defund the Left.
Oh, and we don’t even have the blueprints for the Saturn V! Collectors alone would cheerfully have paid for, and protected, the design documents, and surely the NASA museum could have.
The original NASA was designed as a high-budget skunkworks. If we were to go back to that philosophy, it’d be easy to reconstruct NASA. But a lot of heads would need to roll.
Treaties? The U.S. Supreme Court said that the sitting U.S. President can unilaterally abrogate treaties. Case was Nixon abrogating the treaty with China (not to be confused with the “People’s Republic (Mainland, Red)” of China.
So solar power satellites are as good an idea as when they were first proposed in 1977. And since these plans were privately developed, we still have the blueprints. All we need are a few dozens of Saturn V rockets. Of course, they would tend to go into geosynchronous orbits, so maybe the cable companies would be a touch annoyed, but power satellites would use different frequencies.