“I fully expected Trump to present a plan promoting private space enterprise.”
So we can watch rockets blow up before they are launched? Also, too risky and expensive for domestic private enterprise, and who would want it turned over to an international?
I think the current path followed Bush and Obama has led to a disintegration of NASA, and excessive expenses directed to politically favored contractors.
Then there was the incredible Explodomatic Space Shuttle. Stupidest looking, most asymmetrical, ungainly thing I ever saw in my life.
There should have been a next-generation NASA replacement, but The Shuttle belongs in a museum.
Trump ought encourage private space efforts like Musk and Branson are doing.
crony capitalism by the establishment ?
No way - impossible /s