I'll take a billionaire getting richer over pumping more money into the military industrial complex. Especially when we're talking <10% the cost of our last LV
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(The commercial crew budget includes the actual costs of the launch, SLS is just development costs). I don't see that as hobbling your space program, just having the company building the rockets manage the launch instead of contracting parts out and integrating yourself
The problem is that NASA is optimized to employ as many contractors as possible. And congress wants it that way, and dictates their funding to continue making that the case. When you combine that with a potential dramatic shift in goals every 4-8 years, this path makes sense
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I didn't think I was claiming those are the two options? I'm saying what we have now is better than what we had before, and I don't think you can just funnel the money spent on it into the existing system and expect something better
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And let's not forget that the last spacecraft NASA designed killed 4% of people who boarded it.
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