Shouldn’t NASA be leading the Mission to Mars? Trouble with corporations is that they share their secrets and outsource their technology all over the world. Let’s go back to when things were good and working and keep this technology in the U.S.A.
That is indeed true. I don't see what's so admirable about corporations who, in the pursuit of enlightened capitalism and Randian profiteering, will sell their technology to China, Saudi Arabia or ISIS.