In other words, it might not be that we haven’t achieved anything since the Apollo missions; it’s that we haven’t achieved anything *because of* the Apollo missions.
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I had many times heard people lament that we hadn’t achieved anything great since Apollo missions. After reading this, it occurs to me that the true cost of Apollo program is a crippling aerospace bureaucracy that we’re still recovering from 50 yrs later.https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Apollo-Management-American-European/dp/0801885426 …
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suffering from success? https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-generations-giants … It seems that whole West is suffering because of institutionalization and bureaucracypic.twitter.com/ea64EBPIDx
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so my question would be... are there examples of organization that were able to reverse this calcification?
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A lot of tech that we've capitalized on since then was invented in those years at JPL, NASA, and others ― and funded by government $$. I wonder where a lot of tech would be today if it weren't for the space program(s). And yeah, I also wonder if we're still paying for it...
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It might have been a high price, but the moon rocks were totally worth it. /s
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