This is a bit troubling to me. Although I do believe Nasa has lost sight of its intended goal which is to put men in space.
Nasa has wasted billions looking for life in outer space, if they’d just stuck to their mission by putting man in space we’d have a station on the moon by now.
They’ve wasted half a century in ‘research’ looking for some stupid microbe on a floating rock billions of miles from earth when we already had the technology needed to accomplish a moon station in the 60s. For cryin’ out loud they put a dune buggy on the moon back then!!!
NASA is a government agency that has to abide by what politicians tell them and fund them to do. Many folks that work at NASA believe in the exploration and understanding of space. Unfortunately, politics And governments can “complicate” (to put it politely) things. If someone in the private sector wants to step up to the task, then great. As I stated earlier, it’s my belief the exploration is cost prohibitive until someone (usually govts) lay the groundwork.
I am guilty of generalizing about things without knowing all the facts at times. I do believe in limited government and understand the frustration that some of us feel about the out of control spending. I just hope that we don’t forfeit space to others. I think we will be sorry if we do.