leads me to wonder if the destruction of the NASA rocket program, resulting in dependence on Elon and, he hopes, Bezos, was a product of Nixon's really, really, really stupid idea of the space shuttle, the design of which was altered by such things as the self-interest of Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch and industry based in Utah. I seem to remember one of the chief designers quit when such pressures got them to change the design from being made with titanium to aluminum, which is why they needed those ceramic tiles that caused the deaths and disasters and delays and cost overruns. I recall reading that such Senatorial involvement with things led to that decision.
After being kind of a space geek up until the end of the Apollo years, I can't say I've kept up much with it. So I don't really know the territory. It's the kind of thing you might think I'd depend on "AI" to help me research in a fraction of the time it would take me to do it the more reliable and old fashioned way, but, no.
Anyone know of any such reliable research into why we are depending on Elon and Bezos to such disastrous and ruinous and dangerous effect? Those billionaires and their fixation with their own junk!
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