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usualgerman · 67 days ago · link · · parent · post: 10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off, sources say
I don’t see a problem with ending NASA. We’re to the point that everything that we can do can easily be done by private companies anyway. And most of the things we wanted NASA for (men in space colonies, and FTL travel) are frankly not going to happen. Why not have SpaceX launch satellites and figure out how to grow space tomatoes in high orbit. That’s all we’ve done with the agency since the moon landing. At least SpaceX launched Kirk into space — it was a stunt, but it’s more than NASA has done since the shuttle program. They managed a few telescopes, which is cool, but I don’t see why we need billions a year to do the space equivalent of building big ships and usining them to dump random things in the harbor to see if they float.