re: #73 Targetpractice

Because NASA keeps promising a lot and then failing to achieve that. And to be fair, they do this largely because if they set only achievable goals then they’re less likely to sell Congress on the levels of funding needed to get there. Really, if you asked NASA, there’s as much or even greater support for just sending robot probes everywhere than there is sending men into LEO, let alone back to the Moon or onwards to Mars.

I suspect that if you asked, a lot of people would still like the idea of sending people out into space.

The problem is that we have an anti-science party that still has way too much control and has seriously cut any type of science spending. Businesses, on the other hand, don’t have to justify why the third rocket exploded and they know the fourth one will just work.