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Private companies are allowed to have many failures before they succeed, unlike NASA who lose public goodwill and therefore potentially lose funding when they fail. SpaceX blew up a ton of rockets before they succeeded in having the first reusable rocket. It's much faster to iterate this way but also more expensive, so NASA cant really operate this way. Although on the other hand all the private aerospace companies seem to rely on government subsidies so it's pretty crappy we cant just fund NASA more.
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How about a different model where multiple governments fund a project so NASA is just one member, and give the project a name separate from nasa. Then when the natural fails occur they aren’t owned by nasa. Keeps the oligarchs out of the mix…