Despite NASA having more funding, how come they weren't able to do all the things SpaceX is doing technology wise?
Why Did NASA Fail To Do What SpaceX Is Doing?
Henry Scott
Nathaniel Martinez
private companies that aren't fully dependant on tax money generally are more efficient.
Noah Gonzalez
First of tge spacex rocket looks like shit
Secondly it cant reach the moon
Henry Wood
>Secondly it cant reach the moon
?
its literally been contracted as a lunar lander by NASA
nasa.gov
Asher Collins
Less focus on going to space and more focus on diversity and politics.
Jayden Cox
nasa is tired of making fake videos, musk outsourced video manipulation dept to call center in asia.
Joshua Scott
> Government vs private sector
Gee, I wonder why.
Luis Bailey
Employees were stealing laptops instead of doing rocket science.
Nathaniel Price
>Despite NASA having more funding, how come they weren't able to do all the things SpaceX is doing technology wise?
Being a government entity, a lot of money goes to waste.
They basically have to beg for funding per project, as well. It's not like they can take the money they get in the budget and use it for something other than they requested it for.
Neither could the Space Shuttle. They're actually relatively similar in regards to their single launch capability.
Jacob Thompson
The thing l use to shitpost would be considered a supercomputer back when NASA was developing new vehicles. They haven't had funding to properly develop anything since then.
Just want till China starts planting flags, well see what they're capable of.
Dylan King
Two different objectives. One is to make money the other is to provide a service. Companies fail all the time. That's ok, that's capitalism.
But you can't have the fire department, postal service and court system just decide one day "nah, this isn't worth it for us, we're doing something else."
Oliver Morgan
the meme that the government cant do anything right is a meme.
Sure the government makes shitty stuff but theyre better at research.
Bentley James
NASA did all the up front research and groundwork. Rather reinvent the wheel, more effective to contract these things out and focus resources on grand, bigger picture projects that private industry won't touch yet since there's no quick buck to be made.
Ethan Bennett
Management. One part of it is that, being a government entity, NASA is severely restricted in how it can be managed. The other part is that (whatever you think of his engineering ability) Musk is a really good manager and has the financial and organizational freedom to exploit his ability. Both parts are necessary (see BO).
Ian Nguyen
>Despite NASA having more funding, how come they weren't able to do all the things SpaceX is doing technology wise?
I wonder...
nasa.gov
But most of that extra money is spent on not-space stuff called "Climate Change"
James Hansen takes all their funding and pockets it, then puts out some made up bullshit about CO2
If I worked at NASA I would see he has an accident and then make sure funding goes to space again
Adrian King
Isn't it well known that nearly any government funded thing is a bloated piece of shit with top heavy administration and general waste at every turn?
Parker Murphy
left: sovl
right: sovlless
Isaac Sanchez
Yes, government inefficiencies are well publicized by people interested in privatizing everything. They're not interested in helping to improve the current situation strictly though policy. And they're also uninterested in the obvious conflict of interests that comes with universal privatization. For example, if I ran a hospital and you were uninsured and unable to pay for the high cost of medical care, I wouldn't admit you as a patient.
Lincoln Morris
>For example, if I ran a hospital and you were uninsured and unable to pay for the high cost of medical care, I wouldn't admit you as a patient.
what's the problem here?
Austin Scott
>left -14 deaths in 135 flights
That's atrocious
Landon Russell
The tax breaks hospitals and healthcare providers are given is the issue in that situation.