Buildings at Johnson Space Center in Houston are among the worst at any NASA facility.

Around 83 percent of NASA’s facilities are beyond their design lifetimes, and the agency has a $3.3 billion backlog in maintenance.

Having just submitted an article about a commercial spacewalk, I’m depressed that space is destined to be owned by corporations. This won’t get funded. Politicians will point to how much more efficient private companies do this. Eff.

  • @actually
    9•2 months ago

    Space will be inevitably be dominated by corporations that are multinational. This is early days with a mix of government and private companies that are not so global.

    It’s just how economics work. I think there will be a handful of companies later

    • @Cocodapuf
      2•2 months ago

      Heh, as our reach into space increases, we may end up with “multiglobal” organizations. (Interglobal?)

    • @Magister
      2•2 months ago

      it will be a Weyland-Yutani corp