Jetty

joined 1 year ago
[–] Jetty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is me when I get talking about space exploration and what the future holds.

[–] Jetty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I guess what I would look at is is the ability to have more space projects ongoing at once. NASA has a limited budget every year, and while it is possible for Congress to allocate a much larger percentage to them, that currently isn’t the reality. So instead of NASA managing a space station which eats up a larger percentage of their budget, a private enterprise can operate a space station (yes, with a profit motive), which frees up NASA budget to perform more missions which have at the moment only scientific value, ex probes and landers to outer solar system planets.

[–] Jetty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

.world reporting in