Comment on Public trust

• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really.

  The NASA budget has been slashed for decades on a row and is currently a tiny amount compared to what it was before. That they still manage to do what they do is half a miracle in on itself.

  It’s so bad that a 3 percent of the military budget given to NASA would double it’s budget instantly.

  With that in mind, I would put this on the military industrial complex

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My point was that spending on NASA isn’t why we don’t have health care.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah… point taken, then.

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  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The funny think is that NASA contracts the same companies as the military anyways (in the modern day, at least)

    NASA Prime Contractors Aerojet Rocketdyne, Boeing, Jacobs, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman currently have over 3,800 suppliers contributing to Orion, the SLS rocket, and the lunar spaceport at Kennedy.

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