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I wish the government gave them tens of billions of dollars instead of the military. Even NASA's progress is laughable compared to SpaceX, and NASA gets $18 billion a year.

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The NASA budget is already pretty large compared to the rest of the world, the problem is just that NASA has devolved into very inefficient organisation that is in a political lock. They could do a huge amount with $18 billion, but a lot of it is bound up in pork projects.

The successful projects are usually not the expensive once. Compare the cost of Commercial Cargo (1&2) and Commercial Crew to SLS/Orion is truly eye opening.

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