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Re:After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test by jbay808 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:50PM (#25813607)
I don't think that's a charitable reading of the GP. More like "the government is aiming for something other than efficiency, and it gets what it's aiming for".

If the government were aiming for efficiency, we might see NASA taking a different path.

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Re:After a decade, NASA’s big rocket fails its first real test by beerandt on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:34PM (#25814057)
I agree that it isn't the goal, but that's part of the point.

And I don't necessarily think it's always a bad thing for government to government, especially for a program that ultimately has so much of an impact on military capabilities and national security.

But it's also disingenuous to say "We could if we wanted to."

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