This is nearly 100% due to NASA having a flat-to-decreased budget over the past 30 years. NASA gives an amazing return on investment, but Congress doesn’t care and NASA is forced to rely on third party companies.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I think it's a budget allocation issue, not an overall budget issue. SLS+ML and Orion are absolute money pits. MSR was ballooning in price for all the wrong reasons. On top of that, NASA got a taste of firm fixed price contracts leading to companies underbidding and putting up their own money, which worked out in some cases and not others (SpaceX and Intuitive Machines on one side, Boeing and Collins on the other).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Notice the only time they gave a shit?

Communism was the best thing to happen to NASA. It's absolutely insane how terrified we are of communism that we'd actually give NASA a nice budget just so we could prove we're better in a space pissing contest.

I think we need more communism to be afraid of lol

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 1 month ago

Starve the beast. Even NASA is being sacrificed on the altar of taxes bad, make a billionaire richer instead.