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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
m21, it's very common for NASA to work on DoD projects. Yes, they're working together, it's not 100% NASA. But we're talking semantics here. It's all the US government. You contend that the military is more to thank for many of NASA's innovation, and in some cases you are correct. If NASA is working under contract to DoD, are they not serving a role? You need to look more at the work accomplished than the organization taking credit.
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Soooo, you're sayin that were spending a great deal more on the space program than just the $17 billion we give to NASA every year.
That makes me allot feel better.
NASA has provided many new technologies, new ideas, new developments. But at what cost? Sorry, velcro isn't worth a couple of billion. There are much more efficient ways to develop new technology than trying to send people and things into space.
Nitrogen in tires? Seems to me that they've been doing that for a long, long time. Longer than NASA's been around. I know for a fact that my great, great grandfather was putting about 78% nitrogen in his tires 75 years ago!