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NASA will pay SpaceX nearly $1 billion to deorbit the International Space Station
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NASA needs to start building it's own shit again.
They never built their own shit. They outsourced it to companies via cost plus contracts that cost the tax payer absurds amounts of money
Lol, that's like saying Dell doesn't build computers because most of the parts are built by third party companies.
doesn't change the fact that they don't actually build it
More importantly though, the idea that NASA should start "building" things again is pretty bad. We have more than half a century of data to draw on that shows this. If NASA has to built stuff, it will cost inordinate amounts of money relative to what private space companies have proven capable of doing
Space might hold a certain "magic" to it relative to what we do on Earth, but at the end of the day there's not any real difference, and government organizations aren't in charge of building cars, planes, ships, etc. Space is essentially the only area where they've had this role, and now that space has private companies capable and willing to perform these tasks at a fraction of the price it would take NASA, there's not really any mandate for NASA to fulfil the role anymore