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Originally Posted by Pazuzu
I meant, right now, on the ISS. However, we could expand it to "what science has NASA done, itself, in the past, oh, 30 years?" Very little, most of it is independent labs (like your contacts), universities, and DoE projects. NASA suits think up some idea, then immediately pawn it off on whatever group is willing to sink too much money and time into it. NASA is just the check writer and bus driver for that independent research. All of the actual cool things that happen in space are the results of other people...the farther away you are from NASA while working on a project, the more likely it'll be cool and useful and succeed.
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I think that your glasses are slightly rose colored. The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions -- who built and launched the rockets?
Nasa?
Nope.
Look at the overalls...
ILC Industries
Grumman
And then there was Rockwell, Boeing, Honeywell, the list goes on.
To be honest, NASA has always been a contract management organization.