/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14744879
Remember what they took from you

>>14744985
This is a solved problem and non-issue (see ULA's ACES Depot)

>>11624979
Stop getting your world view from your ass

NASA was ready to do everything we wanted in our back yard. The nixon administration and succeeded administrations decided to pull funding and only pay for things that immediately effect national life. I know because nixon said so. The problem has always been the executive directive and lack of money. The reason NASA doesn't get the money is everyone else wants it and NASA has the least to offer to politicians.

The public's expectations about the difficulty of space travel has no effect whatsoever. Aspirational laymen have only ever asked that NASA gets more money and even if they aren't enthused about conservative development they aren't writing senators to stop it and they wouldn't listen anyway.

And it depends, the way NASA gets more money is having something to offer, which is usually satisfying special interests which is why we are in the mess we are now with multi state jobs programs and life support for boeing.

>>10432554

Even in that case NASA still wants tons of redundancy and training for the actual crews, both of which take at least five years to accomplish. So we're at 15 years minimum, might as well round to 20 considering all the inevitable delays and padding.

Pic related is the furthest NASA ever got on seriously planning a Mars mission, when Nixon and Congress turned it down in the 70s. Just as a baseline NASA wants three space stations in earth orbit plus three more in Mars orbit. That's six total stations, not including ground probes and landers. Even if Musk can physically get equipment there, he's only halfway to a full manned mission.