US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China’s space program::undefined

  • Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    They are likely going to fund it less and give more and more of its mission over to space force and private companies is my guess

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      10 months ago

      That would also work.

      The only thing that won’t work for space is the thing we’re doing now:

      • Maintaining a vice-like government control
      • Using that government authority to choose not to move forward

      Progress only stops under a narrow set of conditions that need to be actively implemented by the government. Progress is actually natural, and progress stopping requires enormous centralized effort to interfere with people getting things done.