• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    NASA has had it’s funding cut year after year for decades. It’s far easier to innovate when you have money to back up the r&d and testing.

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      5 days ago

      Not just funding cuts, but it was heavily politicized and had its direction changed every 4 years. You can’t plan long term like that. It needs to be a government agency but not at the whim of the president or congress.

    • seven_phone@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I wasnt discussing underlying cause, whatever the reason for stifled innovation in some fields possibly evident in NASA it is likely preferable not to pull independent labs into NASA that are having success in these areas.