American MIC squanders billions attempting to reproduce technological achievements of the 1960s; fails (futurism.com)

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America spends so much more money than anyone else in every area of production and gets so little for it. for sure not corruption though as we have carefully, narrowly defined it

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

At least the R&D that's gone into Gateway will be useful for future space stations. Gateway's only real problem is its purpose and location. The technology is genuinely innovative.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

useful for future space stations

only if they share it with the Chinese lol

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