The plug has to be pulled out of this much too expensive prestige project.
This is already the third time that it has been correctly predicted that it is all empty talk from NASA. My twitter line is always completely full, when there is empty bleating again. And those are not conspiracy idiots, but people who are serious about space travel.
I’m no aerospace specialist, but alarm bells started ringing the moment NASA wanted to skip necessary security checks. Something NASA never does these days unless they have a gun put to their heads. My sources speak (for what they’re worth.) about window dressing, and it seems that way.
Just give this to the commercial guys and girls. It’s 2022 and no one wants a repeat of the Apollo project. NASA shouldn’t meddle with that superfluous shit. They simply need to be able to put their money into advanced missions to be able to test new techniques. Rather assemble a Venus rover or map the ice planets properly. Then you can still sell all those billions of tax money to the people with good decency.
And yes, NASA is bigger than this failed project.
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