>>80364997Same. But without the political will, we'll never see the kind of space spending that was the norm back then, or the kind of efficiency NASA used to operate at.
The space exploration budgets are stagnant, and efficiency of governmental spending has declined in the meanwhile.
People on the ground are too busy doing their impression of crab bucket and squabbling over which one of them is more subhuman to bother looking up. Even NASA now resorts to doing vile things like "our new mission is to put very diverse astronauts on the Moon" as they try to "adapt" to this miserable landscape.
Getting more funding is hard, getting the politicians to yield is nigh impossible. So we must extract efficiencies elsewhere.
Private sector might be where it is at today. More and more push is coming from there. Maybe if SpaceX kicks enough ass and builds enough enabling systems, that would be enough to make the governments consider more ambitious projects.
