if congress kept nasa at 5% of the national budget all those years, by now we’d have bases all over the solar system. And right now all they’re getting is 0.4%
And they never should’ve canceled that nuclear rocket engine program, NERVA, like imagine of those on the space shuttle. It would probably be able to leave low earth orbit and maybe even reach the moon. And they totally should’ve launched the Sea Dragon, that wouldv’e been amazing.
Agreed… budgets for NASA changed too frequently, and were nearly always inadequate, that results in missions cancelled and $$$ wasted. It needs long term funding, funding that goes across administrations.
We should have gone there 40 years ago.
actually though
if congress kept nasa at 5% of the national budget all those years, by now we’d have bases all over the solar system. And right now all they’re getting is 0.4%
And they never should’ve canceled that nuclear rocket engine program, NERVA, like imagine of those on the space shuttle. It would probably be able to leave low earth orbit and maybe even reach the moon. And they totally should’ve launched the Sea Dragon, that wouldv’e been amazing.
Agreed… budgets for NASA changed too frequently, and were nearly always inadequate, that results in missions cancelled and $$$ wasted. It needs long term funding, funding that goes across administrations.
I temporarily blacked out, what were we talking about?