>>1493707You mean like that time ESA and NASA were working together on a probe to go to a comet? And then Congress cancelled funding for the mission?
And then ESA did the mission on their own? And then Europe became first to put a lander on a comet?
And then US news network anchors asked scientists:
>why did the United States waste so much money doing this?Then the scientist says:
>actually, this was a European missionAnd the only thing the news anchor could then ask:
>why wasn't America first?Fucking America. NASA has great resources and great capabilities. But the thing that makes it unreliable is fucking Congress.
ESA may have bureaucrats, but at least it's not on the leash of a few politicians who keep wanting Boeing to win all of the contacts. JAXA and Roscosmos also manage to get away with not having politicians go apeshit over doing things in space.
JAXA is all about "honourable endeavours in space", and Roscosmos... they're currently suffering from a huge brain drain while they replace competent engineers with incompetent ones who drill holes in pressurised spacecraft and then use glue to cover it up and hammer on ball joints for staging.
I'm really fucking happy that Europe will be going to the moon with America this time around. I'm just pissed that Bridenstine, Pence and even Trump keep forgetting that they're not going alone this time.
