Is Nasa lazy?

Question

Why not send humans to mars?

Answer 1

No money for the mission.

Answer 2

Not lazy, but all tied up in knots by government bureaucracy and not supplied with enough money to do the job. The cost of the Apollo Moon program was $25 billion in 1970 dollars. Today that would be $120 billion in inflation adjusted dollars. NASA gets about $16 billion a year today, and 60% goes to the space shuttle and space station. If they canceled the shuttle and space station and spent that 60% on Mars, it would take over 12 years to spend the amount it took to go to the Moon. And there is no way they can just drop the shuttle and space station, politically. Certainly Mars would be harder and more expensive than the Moon, given that you can get to the Moon in 3 days but it takes 8 months to get to Mars, so it would take far longer than 12 years without a massive increase in NASA's budget, which isn't about to happen. People who say we could just do it easily are just being unrealistic, IMO.

Answer 3

Lord give me patience, I really NEED IT NOW. Faster, cheaper and better is NASA's motto as an above board "white" program. What about the Unacknowledged Special Access Programs? In other words, the "black" programs? NASA plain and simple is nothing but a front or rather a cash cow of siphoned off money for other "need to know" programs, period. And to answer the difference between government versus private space programs, why is it then that the Federal Reserve is privately owned? What exactly is a private entity? What most Americans fail to realize is that our "government" is privatized and not the constitutional form of government it is supposed to be.

NASA is not lazy. NASA just provides the cover necessary for other contingencies and agendas that only those with "clearances" can participate in.

Forget Mars. First send our astronauts to the moon for real this time.

Answer 4

I think nasa is seriously mis-managed. The leaders have no positive vision for the future that they're willing to risk everything on; they have no umph to move in directions that are consistant with human growth. One reason is their spiritual and political ends arn't consistant with a leading edge movement; they've been criticized before for cultural in-growth and they don't realize the magnitude of their responsibility or potential.

Answer 5

I don't believe NASA engineers are lazy, they are full of good ideas & the Astronauts Corps is motivated but money is THE problem.

NASA need a strong gov't support (i.e money) and the government need public support...public money but lots of people would prefer to see public money used on earth...especially in "social" actions.

Answer 6

"Lord, give me patience, and I want it RIGHT NOW!"

I don't think you can characterize an organization which has done as much with a wildly fluctuating budget as NASA as lazy. Government bureaucracies are notoriously less efficient than private corporations, but only the government has had the capitalization to finance most of NASA's projects to date. Currently there is only one private company which has succeeded in putting a man into space and returning him safely.

Answer 7

Because it is expensive, we only barely have the technology to do it, and because they can't do it safely yet (and killing people is a good way to lose public support).

Answer 8

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