So NASA management’s defense of Ares 1 will be that if you don’t let us waste incredible amounts of money it will force us to waste stupendous amounts of money
I doubt if they see it that way, but that’s what it is.
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I think that’s pretty much the argument for everything the FedGov does, regardless of the party in charge.
Steve Cook lied through his teeth about the cost of Ares 1, that it had not changed.
JP Gibb: You beat me to it.
My jaw was on the floor when in my youth an engineer in the department I worked at the FAA described the budgeting process which included a ton of programs they knew they would never get funded (or even wanted funded) so they did get the funding for the things they did want.
Apparently this is universally how it’s done which is why the ‘stimulus’ resulted in funding of so many stupid projects.
Saying cutting funds will cost us more is just part of this same game.
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