>>11625359If we agreed on everything why did you even post?
You seemed to believe your post was contradicting mine, so I went on to explain it wasn't relevant.
>You're saying we need a president interested in flag planting for a budget? Quite the opposite, IMHO we need a president who care about getting science done and give a stable budget. Previous presidents claimed to be interested in flag planting for the bump in popularity it brought then discretely cut the budget later as it inevitably turned out unfeasible during their mandate.
>No, I don't even know what you're talking about, but that wasn't in my post.>>11625046 >>The public's expectations about the difficulty of space travel has no effect whatsoeverSo I'm explaining to you,
When public is told repeatedly "Mars for 2020" then 2030 and see it never ready (because it's harder than they were told) they end up thinking NASA is a waste of money, and since NASA don't have a stable budget they were forced to pretend we can do it using older off-the-bin technology, rarely experimenting with new stuffs.
Closing the loop with the next president not giving a real budget because no one believe it anymore.
Now the financially irresponsible SpaceX CEO gave engineers a stable budget and they developped something new. It's nowhere reliable for their big project and no one raise their hope anymore because of all the previous lies.
>>11625375Read better, the space race was a race for new rocket engines and nuclear missiles technology, Apollo was for an ideological victory over the Soviet.
Anyone serious should know that.
