The space agency says its facilities are in an "increasing state of decline."
  • exohuman@programming.dev
    10·
    1 year ago

    Infrastructure like this are the perfect projects to generate jobs for average people. The government should be all over this type of thing.

    • Jeredin@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      At least create jobs for the best within their construction fields and this create openings down the line. Win-win.

  • zhunk@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’d love to read some specifics. NASA has a lot of unique facilities that plenty of their programs and private companies rely on, but I wonder if there are some buildings, test stands, or even entire facilities that should be mothballed. For example, if SLS ever winds down, I’m guessing a lot of money could be saved at Michoud, which seems to take a hurricane hit all too often, and Stennis, which has some incredible old Apollo test stands that look like they want the sweet release of the scrap heap.

  • gu3miles@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    With SpaceX boosters better than what nasa has they may want to refocus for a bit on getting a new solid orbital rocket, and only work on atmospheric instruments. Put the moon and mars on the back foot for a while and shore up the base.

    • zhunk@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Are you saying NASA should work on a rocket? To me, that seems like the exact opposite of what they should do. It seems like a total waste of resources for NASA to try to recreate what already exists.