Post #1893865

2023-11-05 21:53 UTC

@chrisisgr8 There was that time the government just gave money to scientists and engineers hand over fist at NASA which gave us people on the moon, space blankets, the microwave, better computers, and a lot of other things. And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons?

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@Polychrome@poly.cybre.city 2023-11-06 03:04

@Matt5sean3 @chrisisgr8 reasons been the moon landing happened and the Soviet threat of a military platform in orbit ended so they shifted funds to "problems at home".

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@copito@techhub.social 2023-11-06 04:16

@chrisisgr8 @Matt5sean3 you know that was just to justify creating ICBMs right?

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@feld@bikeshed.party 2023-11-06 19:25

@Matt5sean3@rva.party @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt > And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons? because NASA is really fucking inefficient at using their money > A report from NASA's Office of Inspector General released in November 2021 outlines just how much development costs increased for SLS between its first iteration and now, and revealed how expensive each SLS launch will be. According to the report, NASA will end up spending a total of $93 billion on the Artemis program between 2012 and 2025, and each SLS/Orion launch will have a price tag of about $4.1 billion.

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