[dotnet00]

Their goals are similar, NASA is just hamstrung by Congress and the general public. If NASA had the freedom to choose its direction they too would be working on a Starship style rocket by now, not attempting to pass off a dinosaur as modern.

[MichaelCollins]

> NASA is just hamstrung by Congress and the general public

I don't think you can assert that NASA hasn't or wouldn't fall to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. What makes NASA special to be immune to such dysfunction?

[p_l]

Or they might have ran their original design of STS instead of one hamstrung and made hilariously expensive due to contract with DoD