▲ 1692 ▼ Elon Musk ‘Secretly’ Used Starlink To Foil A Ukrainian Attack On Russian Naval Fleet Over Fear Of Nuclear War: Report (www.mediaite.com) submitted 3 years ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 465 comments fedilink hide all child comments What an utter piece of shit.
[–] 31337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) NASA just contracts everything out. I think NASA would be much different if they had something like SpaceX (and was funded properly). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* NASA just contracts everything out. I think NASA would be much different if they had something like SpaceX (and was funded properly). NASA gets so much funding for the SLS, which is so expensive, that NASA itself is saying it's throwing money away. It's US Congress routing tax payer funding to disastrously inefficient contractors, not to have an actually functional space program. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* NASA just contracts everything out. I think NASA would be much different if they had something like SpaceX (and was funded properly). NASA gets so much funding for the SLS, which is so expensive, that NASA itself is saying it's throwing money away. It's US Congress routing tax payer funding to disastrously inefficient contractors, not to have an actually functional space program. permalink fedilink source parent