Because American politicians would rather spend the money on engaging international wars. NASA will only get the funding it desperately needs if one of US’ rivals one up them, like how the launch of Sputnik spurred the race to the moon.
Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
laber@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The nationalization of SpaceX will mean a slowdown in development, like in the case of NASA.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 week ago
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
sounds good who gives a shit
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 1 week ago
Ignoring the lack of evidence or argument presented here for that, I’d rather take a slowdown than Musk get a single new dollar.