[SunkenCiv]

Space dot com is a tiresome website more concerned about their business model than about reporting space news -- which is in part because there isn't really all that much space news from day to day. If they had any sense, they'd serialize transcripts of events like the video I linked up there.

Bridenstine was just doing his job, part of which is to show how responsibly NASA is now using taxpayer money, now that muzzie outreach and global warming horse**** is out of the agency. If anything, he and Musk should get a room, geez. :^) It's no wonder though that Musk gets pissed off, although I think he handled it well, must be new meds or aromatherapy or something.

[DoodleBob]

Let me state upfront, that I believe NASA is on questionable Constitutional footing. There is no enumerated Article 1, Section 8 power granted to the Congress to establish NASA or its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Indeed, NACA grew out a desire for "scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution." Maybe there is a military angle to NASA's existence, but the libertarian in me thinks NASA should be privatized.

That said...

I'm VERY impressed with how the New Horizons program was managed, run, dealt with a Safe Mode problem a few days before the Pluto flyby (and in the midst of July 4 celebrations) and delivered the goods....and THEN moved on to Ultima Thule.

If the rest of NASA was as "progressive" as New Horizons, that would be awesome. But it NASA is privatized, please keep Musk away from it.