>2020 is less than 4 years away
>Still no definite plans to have manned missions to Mars, let alone full blown colonies
What happened to lead us to this failure? In the 90s, we believed we'd have the first colonies on Mars by 2020
2020 is less than 4 years away
Christopher Ortiz
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Logan Long
We rely on nasa to bring us to a new space age but for years all they've done is hemorrhage unspeakable amounts of money and cry when feminazis say something about their shirts. Nasa is literally a group of cucks
James Perez
why is /pol/ constantly shifting up this board and bringing 'feminazis' and 'cucks' up in literally every thread and politicising EVERYTHING?
Brayden Smith
NASA’s budget for fiscal year 2011 is roughly $18.5 billion — 0.5 percent of a $3.7 trillion federal budget. In 2010, Americans spent about as much on pet food.
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Owen Lewis
>No interest in colonizing Mars.
>Outer Space Treaty
>Russia and China being antagonistic forces in the world
>Focus on getting rid of aging and medical stuff.
Pick any.
Gabriel Barnes
Unfortunately for humans, politics get in the way of many good efforts...
Josiah Morales
It's not about money. Focusing on the percentage of the federal budget is misleading because back in the day the federal budget was much smaller, not just in absolute terms but also as share of GDP and adjusted for inflation. See the 2014 constant dollar expenses in this table:
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It is equally misleading to focus on the peak year of expenses, because the Apollo program ran from 1961 to 1972. And the development of the Saturn rocket family began even before Kennedy, back in 1959 (actually 9/11/58 but let's skip those few months). If you take the average NASA budget in 2014 constant dollars from the years 1959-1972, then you see, it was just 20% more than today's budget (calculated as average from 2001-2014).
There are two main reasons NASA can't do shit today despite being financed almost as good as during Apollo. First it got rid of the Germans after Apollo in an attempt to americanize NASA. This was a huge brain drain. An ESA manager once said: the day von Braun left NASA lost the equivalent of 10.000 workers. The second reason is that NASA is already invested in a big manned spaceflight program which eats up a sizeable chunk of the budget: the ISS.
Christopher Nelson
Capitalism. Mars is such a long term investment that people will dismiss it in favor of something that makes money while they're still alive.
Logan Butler
The Cold War is over and so is the space race.
We're stuck here until we fix all problems on earth and there is not a single starving child left.
Asher Campbell
Obama turned NASA into a state funded muslim dicksucking organisation.