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Where did they mount the Chevy Bowtie?

Probably French engineers. My second car was a Citroen, and needed to take off a motor mount to replace the ##$%$@ battery.

Which, incidentally, wasn't as big a problem as you'd think, given that the thing rusted so fast the battery out lasted that particular model in a lot of cases....

Recover News has a story about what they call Affirmative Action NASA. The Artimes program with all their technology has been unable to duplicate what was accomplished 50 years ago with a pocket calculator and a slide rule.

Why not defund NASA and give Elon Musk half the money we save? He will probably have a profitable commercial mining operation on the moon and weekly shuttle flights back and forth in a couple of years.

Bring in the Aliens and use their spacecraft, be cheaper, quicker, and they work.

Yeah, better vote Brandon out: as soon as he came into office, the FAA coincidentally started holding up flight permits at Boca Chica.

Nothing to see there, I'm sure, just moving along.

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NASA is becoming irrelevant. They are a waste of taxpayer dollars. The Govt should contract with Musk and have him perform all of NASA's functions.

Redundancy where one player is less than "stellar" is a giant waste of resources.

I thought we had a fuel shortage and the emissions caused global warming!

There is no doubt that NASA today is not the place it was in the 1960s. Although it is worth keeping in mind we had the Cold War running and the NASA budget was 4.9% of GDP. It dropped to .49% after the end of Apollo However, it is interesting to compare the first attempts at the launch of the SLS for Artemis and the first Saturn V, which was unmanned and was Apollo 4 November 9, 1967. The Saturn V was wheeled out and up it went without a hitch. Unlike the the SLS which was Shuttle derived the Saturn V was a new rocket. The only part of the Saturn V previously used was the third stage which was used as the second stage of the two stage Saturn 1B. The Saturn 1B was used for some Apollo missions in low earth orbit where they tested things like the Lunar Module. Because its second stage was the third stage of a Saturn V things could all screw together. I think a plus NASA had in the 1960s was the environment was very regulation free, people were smoking everywhere and Mission Control was full of cigarette smoke. I am sure everyone remembers how guns and hunting were back in the 1960s. NASA today and mission control has a very clinical look and feel about it.