• @Inucune@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      NASA is too beholden to politics… You can’t do 7 year builds and missions when the Senate flips every 4 years and has to kill everything the other side did on principle that it has a D or R attached to it. Everything is political.

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          1 month ago

          It is usually due to “budget cuts” as the easiest way to kill a project is to defend it.

          Juno Jupiter flyby

          Maven mission to mars

          New horizons kbo flyby

          Terra mission-earth science satellite

          Aqua mission -earth science satellite

          DSCOVR

          SLS-which may actually be a bad program but is a good example of the political issues with NASA vs senate.