[ExI] What happens to US space programs after November?

[Giulio Prisco]

Sure, NASA will still be there after november. But perhaps it will be
managed by the Department of Agriculture, like in a Stephen Baxter
novel (Space).

If a new US President always cancels the space programs of the
previous administration upon taking office, then the US space program
is stuck on the ground forever.

That in a democracy the color of the administration changes every few
years is GOOD. What is NO GOOD is a two-party system split in two
roughly equal camps that hate each other and don't want to work
together for the common good. Nothing good can come out of that.

Of course I agree that the SLS should be canceled and the money used
to buy launch and cargo services from Musk &co. But that would be a
political decision that only an administration with an ambitious space
program would make. Otherwise, better let large legacy companies and
their politicians continue to profit from the status quo.


On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:34 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> What happens to US space programs when a new President enters office?
>
> The same thing that always happens to US space programs when a new President enters office.
>
> Maybe this time SLS will get recognized as the jobs-but-never-actually-space program it's always been (what, you think the program's executives intend to ever launch if they can avoid it, with their chain of broken promises about when this will happen and how much it will cost?) and get defunded.  Or maybe not.
>
> Maybe there will be more focus on getting actual space-based industry started up.  Or maybe not.
>
> But I can guarantee NASA will still be there after November.  (And after January, when the new Presidential term actually begins.)
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