So, the program was valid, but muddied by beaurocracy.
So, the program was valid, but muddied by beaurocracy.
After Skylab we had no vision. Walter Mondale and William Proxmire saw that LEO was the best we could hope for. Shuttle became first a bureaucratic mess then the last of the old guard left. Challenger was destroyed by schedule-obsessed middle-managers. NASA for the last 20 years has been a DEI joke. That's why SLS will probably never make another flight.
After Skylab we had no vision. Walter Mondale and William Proxmire saw that LEO was the best we could hope for. Shuttle became first a bureaucratic mess then the last of the old guard left. Challenger was destroyed by schedule-obsessed middle-managers. NASA for the last 20 years has been a DEI joke. That's why SLS will probably never make another flight.
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