Meanwhile the Tiangong space station began construction in 2021 and has been continuously crewed since June 2022. It currently has capacity for six people, and via UNOOSA-organized cooperation has plans to host experiments from 17 countries including Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. The first non-Chinese person to travel there will likely be from Pakistan. (The US would be welcome too but Congress currently prohibits NASA from participating.)
You literally don’t even understand what you are arguing for or why -_-
Nobody is trying to pretend they didn’t contract out work.
NASA has been underfunded for a very long time, and we have been trained by capitalists to think it’s useless and always was.
NASA used to conduct missions, too, not just private companies. And instead of giving them even a billion dollars a year, we are throwing the most successful space organization in human history after giving HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS, to a private corporation that is now going to replace the public one.
Humanity is not going to have a good time in space if private industry is allowed to control its access.