52:59They're still doing okay on the military tech side of things to my understanding, but they've done a lot to really squeeze their old suppliers hard and cut too many corners for too long.
53:03NASA didn't make the Apollo hardware in-house either
53:07So when we getting that moon base Trump promised ya this year
53:07Do you have trouble on takeoffs? I've had times I felt like I was gonna have g-loc.
53:08:speaking_head::fire::fire::fire:
53:09NASA always outsourced.
53:10I think you'll be fine in micro gravity, but getting there is always the tough part
53:16Its Congress’s fault
53:18nasa is funded by the government so its basically the DMV
53:19the budget is set to make them fail :loudly_crying_face:
53:20In-house design, then contract out the construction.
53:24we cant. bespoke equipment is expensive and all or nothing operations are less feasible.
53:24I think it got cut like 20%?
53:30every government funded organization is either misfunded or underfunded
53:32the congress critters is constantly fucking with NASAs budget
53:32It's been a bit of a death of a thousand cuts
53:32NASA's budget has always been small
53:33NASA always did contracts to private companies like Boeing or Lockheed
53:33Problem is government funding can get tied up elsewhere. A line from Apollo 13 has always stuck with me "I don't want to hear that NASA BS. I want to know what's happening with my husband!"
53:36it's like 1/4 what it used to be and that's before inflation
53:39North American Aviation made Apollo, Rockwell made the Shuttle
53:39Nowadays it's hard to justify space travel now that "Own the Commies" isn't a good reason
53:39bush and obama put nasa in the ground for a while
53:40They subcontract all their hardware to those big aviation companies
53:49I mean, after landing on the moon a couple times and with the fall of the Iron Curtain there was significantly less general interest in space flight, not really much NASA could've done.
53:50their funding got cut multiple times
53:52Well we’re not trying to 1 up the Russian anymore
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53:52the outsourcing was legislated to spread out the industrial stuff so certain states could get a chunk of the money
53:52NASA today is run by politicians, NASA of old was run by Von Braun
53:54the moon is a rock mars was killed off by lucifer it was malted used be like earth
53:55Saturn V was a black check with the mission being "beat the russians" the moon was a byproduct
53:56they used to physically make rockets themselves adn would modify them on the fly to fix issues hence why the early rockets were all considered hand made.
53:58they only ever gave them money when it made russia look bad
53:58NASA also decided to focus more on Climate than just space exploration
54:00Let's be real, the space program has an abysmal ROI