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Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Commercial providers for space programs cost more money than if NASA just hired civil servants to do a lot of the work. Big corps just take longer, then don't want to share development info that taxpayers funded, making integration into other elements a huge safety problem that can't be fully resolved due to the protection of the provider's intellectual property.

Then they get shit workers that put up with job instability caused by a fickle Congress. This has gotten progressively worse for decades, and now NASA is reduced to a corporate subsidy program for parasitic billionaires and huge companies that don't deliver well. Nothing like someone asking me if a design will function properly with another, and me basically saying I have no fucking clue because everything is a goddamn secret.

NASA's commercial provider obsession was bought by lobbyists, and it's a fucking terrible idea. I'll die on that hill.

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