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Skyskimmer
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I'm sorry if this seems a little like an attack, but it's more of a honest assement in my opinion. I'm not saying space lovers can't crunch the numbers of spaceflight, but there's a tendency to have a hard time making realistic projections for space flight.
I mean were stuck in a culture of economic pestimism. For most lovers of space, soon as we start talking about money, we end up getting very negative, or start making unrealistic expectations (commiting 30 percent of national budget on space flight etc.)
I mean so here feels like they actually have a good handle on what a positive course of actions on space flight would look like.
A good thing to keep in mind is that NASA only spends about 4-5 billion a year on space flight, and most of that is tied up in the ISS. Considering last year star trek made 1/5th of the space budget and an amount to the pratical budget(80percent is waste or redundance.
I mean were stuck in a culture of economic pestimism. For most lovers of space, soon as we start talking about money, we end up getting very negative, or start making unrealistic expectations (commiting 30 percent of national budget on space flight etc.)
I mean so here feels like they actually have a good handle on what a positive course of actions on space flight would look like.
A good thing to keep in mind is that NASA only spends about 4-5 billion a year on space flight, and most of that is tied up in the ISS. Considering last year star trek made 1/5th of the space budget and an amount to the pratical budget(80percent is waste or redundance.