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WalterBright

> can projects that the current government doesn't like.

All administrations do that.

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Most administrations aren't so destructively anti-science as this one.

Reagan was pretty bad.

Really? Can you show me a legitimate scientific project that the Obama administration shut down?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program

Maybe we didn't have the cash sitting around to build up the ISS in the immediate aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the great depression.

As I recall, one couldn't (and still can't) get funding for research into medicinal uses of drugs like marijuana and heroin.

Politics always drives what gets government research funding and what doesn't. Politics defines what is "legitimate" and what isn't, and those shift over time.

> shut down

You're citing research that was never started.

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