OR… Or… hear me out… Another agency (or a new one) could be in charge of all that stuff, really important stuff and we let the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deal with space, other planets and stuff like that, don’t you think?
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NASA needs to do a better job of keeping track of how much money the private industry makes off all the IP they release for free.
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It’s a great video, but I wish NASA would get back to launching people into space instead of making videos. It’s now been more than seven years since the last manned launch (Atlantis), and will be at least seven more years until the next one (Gateway). In the meantime, we are relying on Russian rockets to send people to the ISS. Jack Kennedy would not be amused.
I don’t think the videographers were the ones in charge of launching people into space anyway.
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“… We are NASA, and, after 60 years, we’re just getting started.”
Not the best advertising strapline I’ve heard.
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It’s two years old and there’s quite a lot of imagery from really troubled programmes in there including Ares (cancelled) and the SLS (should have been cancelled by now).
NASA is being strangled by low funding and Congressional priorities - no one wants the SLS, especially now that Space X has, and Blue Origin soon will have, big rockets. But the programme lurches on as it is a pork barrel designed less to fly into space than deliver government largesse to as many Congressmen’s districts as possible. If it flies, it is shocking value for money.
Love the soundtrack though.
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I wonder how many people end up working for NASA because Starfleet isn’t hiring.
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NASA is not at all exclusively devoted to that (e.g., https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/), so no, I don’t think. Sending people to other planets is enormously challenging and great theater, but it’s not going to help us much. Refocusing NASA would be enormously helpful.
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Missions change, outmoded workers can be retrained, or go work for one of the space-friendly billionaires.
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NASA climate studies are and extension of the planetary endeavor, Is the Study of our planet’s climate as a whole so we can understand others planets better… and of course there is the real and clear thread of climate change. But ultimately I’m not trying to revoke your idea, but trying to show that NASA focus in the Space exploration in not a waste or not helpful to the “rest” of Us.
In Fact it will be incredible helpful for The technological and scientific development of humanity If NASA press on the space exploration. NASA itself have been force to defend itself from it since it’s inception by shortsighted and self centered individuals and politicians.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html
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Excuse me, are they considering the space shuttle a success? We killed 14 people.
Why must we have just one or the other? Surely the richest country in the world can fund space research AND ocean research?
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Exactly is like cut the funding to help starving kid in Central America because there is homeless in Utah. It is utterly over simplistic.
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So by that logic the 747 is a huge failure too right?
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Indeed, in the 1958 Space Act, which established NASA, reference to purposes within Earth’s atmosphere is in the very first sentence, even before any talk of space.
It’s all about risk management. The benefits of the 747 outweigh the risk of flying in one. The same could not be said about the shuttle, which was, on balance, a failure of US space policy (see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6084857_The_Space_Shuttle_Program_A_Policy_Failure).
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The best NASA promotional video I’ve seen was The Martian.
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I Stand corrected
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