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. When you consider NASA’s $250 million estimate for normal year-to-year maintenance, it would take a $600 million uptick in NASA’s annual budget for infrastructure repairs to catch up on the backlog within the next 10 years.

“Worst” in terms of being overdue for repairs, not that they don’t produce great work.

  • @JusticeForPorygonEnglish
    22•2 months ago

    It always blows my mind when someone suggests cutting funding for NASA, because it takes very little research into the space shuttle program, (which was designed literally because they needed a cheaper way to get into space) to understand that they were literally sending people up in giant metal sarcophagi practically held together by duct tape and ear wax. Then you had the fucking higher ups (cough cough Reagan Administration) who pushed for the launch of these actual fucking deathtraps under conditions that everyone involved knew were reckless and put the lives of the crew at risk.

    And that, kids, is why you saw a space shuttle break apart on National television.

    Kinda strayed away from my point, but this subject really pisses me off and it’s even worse to know that the situation has not improved in the slightest.

    • threelonmusketeersOPEnglish
      12•2 months ago

      I know, right? Could they not reduce the military budget a tiny bit, and double NASA’s budget?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 months ago

      Worked on a few project’s funded by the defense department, honestly the government’s getting ripped off 80% of the time by inflated prices from defense contractors. It’s like contracting the mafia for a construction project, they know they’re getting ripped off by the contractors for subpar work. But, they don’t care because they went to college together. They could take less than 1% from the defense budget and easily update the NASA facilities. Instead they continue to pay a human turd of a traitor, Dollar Store Tony Stark.

      • threelonmusketeersOPEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        they continue to pay a human turd of a traitor, Dollar Store Tony Stark

        Not to defend Elon Musk (the human), but hasn’t SpaceX (the company) saved NASA money compared to the Space Shuttle program? The Shuttle was famously expensive to operate (~1.5B$ per launch), while Crew Dragon costs only ~200M$ per launch.