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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program (interestingengineering.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program::undefined

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I disagree privitizing space will do absolutly nothing but lead to balooned costs and stagnation.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Theoretically private programs would be an increased cost over a NASA only program since private companies want a profit margin.

    But Congress being what it is tends to require NASA programs to create jobs in a lot of different voting districts across the country which leads to an insane amount of inefficiencies.

    We can't have nice things because of pork barrel politics.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Private Companies however have no insintive to actualy innovate, if you look at them they are all taking decades old NASA and USSR Space program tech and resuing it ... and callling it innovation

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm sorry... this is not true lol. You know what SpaceX is up to, right? At the least, but there are tons of interesting and innovative companies. I mean hell look at Stoke Space

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