[boona]

Considering how little impact they've had recently with a $19 billion dollar annual budget, maybe what we're seeing is an administrative or leadership problem. It would suck for those involved if NASA got severe cuts, but in the long run the geniuses there would find jobs in the private sector like SpaceX and they could make a real difference.

[mturmon]

Just for reference, here is the list of NASA science missions now flying: https://science.nasa.gov/missions-page?field_division_tid=Al...

The private sector would have no incentive and little ability to mount these missions.