This is what they do already right?
NASA doesn't actually build any rockets anymore - it's all contracted out to various companies.
NASA doesn't actually build any rockets anymore - it's all contracted out to various companies.
On the list of governemnt expenses... NASA is almost a rounding error ($18.4 billion in 2011, about 0.5% of the $3.4 trillion US budget). Perspective is important.
I feel like there's probably a "law" using a constant that states "As a project's ETA approaches T, the actual delivery date approaches infinity."
Where T is ~10 years.
And in response to the inevitable "safety" -- let's be honest, we're strapping humans to a giant bomb that hopefully explodes in a controlled way.
Astronauts are some of the bravest people in the world, but the end goal is to explore and colonize space.