• Nurgus@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Imagine if we’d funded NASA amd taxed billionaires propely to pay for it all along.

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      21 hours ago

      We had and have a national space agency. A private company has surpassed them and is now offering launches 90% cheaper than NASA. It’s cost overruns are also 97% less. If NASA were “funded properly,” we would be paying a lot more for a lot fewer launches.

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        17 hours ago

        Now imagine where it would be if Republicans hadn’t ratfucked the program’s budget for 60 years

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        a private company that got bootstrapped by federal dollars, NASA research, and nasa personnel, led by someone who can’t be trusted and is rolling spacex into grok x tesla etc.