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Originally Posted by tnronin
Here are just a few NASA spinoffs I know they are wasteful, but I think you have both over simplified and denigrated NASA un-necessarily. |
NASA spun off a bunch of technologies in the 70's directly related to it's core mission, sure. Since then, it's developed a bunch of interesting techs...but it's mission is
not tech research, it's space - and the costs of it's technologies have been massive compared to traditional research labs!
Moreover, it's manned space vehicles are
still based on those 70's technologies.
And what do you know, the Federation of American Scientists has a
few things to say on the topic as well.