Originally Posted by
ORAC
$100 Billion - corrected for inflation - is ballpark to what the entire Mercury/Gemini/Apollo programs spent going to the moon - and they literally had to invent the technology as they went. SLS has had two test flights to show for what we spent going to the moon - repeatedly.
NASA has morphed from a 'can do' organization into just another bloated government bureaucracy, while Space X has taken over the 'can do' title (at least when the other bloated government agencies don't stop them).