Related post by Eric Berger:<p>The politically incorrect guide to saving NASA’s floundering Artemis Program
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> Is budget estimation just some figleaf used at NASA to push the favored mission over the selection line, and then another set of books is used to actually build and run the mission?<p>Yes? When in the history of modern American aerospace funding has NASA <i>actually</i> gotten the money they ask for, in the timeframe they asked for it?<p>The problem with NASA is making it political. I agree it's a national disgrace, but the disgrace lives in Congress, not Cape Canaveral.
I love how they tried to blame it on Boeing awhile back...<p>The real problem is people got used to Unlimited Federal Cash. And got good a vacuuming it up. With no real threat to the US uniting the myriad of cultures, no focus, and no one demanding accountability or value for their tax dollar, this was a natural result.