Eric Hedman thinks that there’s nothing wrong with the space program that can’t be solved with more money.

Sorry, no sale here. Even if it were possible to increase NASA’s budget by over fifty percent in the current political climate, all it would mean is more waste, less motivation to do things smart, and less pressure on them to rely on commercial suppliers. It wouldn’t result in more cost effective space activities, which are what are required to open up the frontier. Until the people developing space systems are spending their own money, as XCOR, SpaceX, Armadillo and others are, we’ll continue to get pork-based solutions, with little resembling innovation, in which success of the mission itself is, at best, a secondary goal.

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Oh, and Mark? There’s no such word as “enfusion.”

Get Firefox. It has a spell checquer built in.