How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

  • Intralexical@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The DC-X/Delta Clipper was really cool, but the Space Shuttle was a design-by-committee safety and maintenance disaster. VentureStar didn’t go much better either, though that was mostly Lockheed.

    NASA’s had the tech, the expertise, and the will for a while, but the political process was never going to give them permission to do anything more than slow-moving rehashes and incremental evolutions of old technology.