“Congress will always choose short-term pork over long-term development unless there’s strong Presidential leadership.” – Glenn Reynolds.
Translation: commercial spaceflight is hosed. This administration simply doesn’t do “strong Presidential leadership.” Particularly when it comes to private space exploration: liberal Democrats have hated space travel since the Great Society. Gotta spend that money right here on Earth, don’t you know?
God save the Republic from scientific illiterates. And from the people who vote for them when they really should have known better, too.
On a happier note, the new DAO DLC comes August 10.
“commercial spaceflight is hosed”
Wait, you’re just figuring this out?
I’m a raging optimist, BG5.
And it’s interesting that those they call “scientific illiterates” are the ones who wish to keep funding it, while the “scientific”,”reality-based” community wants to kill it.