I think the James Webb Space Telescope is a perfect example of how horrible America's space program has been in recent decades. It's even worse than SLS.

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companies are great at prioritizing profits.  sometimes that's good.

government is great at not prioritizing profits.    sometimes that good.


both has it's place.  a fully free market or a fully communist government isn't a good thing.   sometimes government/corporate collaboration is the best thing.  you can really see that in how the covid vaccine came together.  putting the right solution to the right problem is.  

It's not even a market issue. NASA is doing it all anyway.

Just should have replaced the shuttle in the 90s with an sls class rocket, or never replaced saturn v.

Would have improved science and saved billions.


Sea Dragon was also a NASA idea back then that would have been smart. Just a big dumb rocket.