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They might already be doing better than might sometimes be obvious, with the various probe missions. But I would give them a larger mandate – and budget – for MANNED missions.
Yes, they do.
But they also have tremendous overhead of the NASA centers. IF they lower their overhead by closing, consolidate or co-opting these centers with other agencies/universities they could use this funding for more research.
Its important to do the robot missions, they can open new realms of science. Like the New Horizon probe to Pluto. That just blew me away, Pluto didnt look anything like I imagined.
Even if the research centers don’t have the budget to build some things themselves – including manned mission ships – if they’re doing research that Elon Musk and Richard Branson and others can use to get them done, that’s a very good thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAlPQau5Hc
Sure, this is great, but Elon Musk and Richard Branson should pay for it. This could become a new jobs program from NASA, become America’s R&D center. Have GE, GM etc pay for R&D that’s done at the NASA centers, to help with new product development, with the understanding that any product resulting from this research is made exclusively in the US for 5 – 10 years… Could help tremendously with unemployment and exports…
They DO pay for it, or at least Musk does, with taxes. :-) And if the technologies are licensed, NASA gets money from that too.