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"No reason", other than the massive budget constraints NASA faces, and has been facing yearly since the end of the Apollo program.

https://static.nationalpriorities.org/images/charts/2015/tot...

See that Science heading there on the chart? It's hard making the world a better place on a 0.7% budget. DARPA, however has access to that Military heading, 16.3%.

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Perhaps you're missing my point. I'm suggesting that money from the military spending budget could be moved over to NASA without losing any ability to drive forward new technology.

That is exactly the point the TS was making, spending the money on NASA instead of DARPA would be a huge improvement, shifting the focus away from war.

Not that that is ever going to happen.

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