NASA delays launch of historic moon mission

[haele]

9. NASA has had issues since bean counters took over from scientists.

The problem with NASA is that once we put a man on the moon, everyone looked at each other and said "now what"....
And the political forces that felt they needed more attention started making noises about the waste of money a moon shot was as if that was the only accomplishment that came out of the Apollo program.
Why should the country be spending soooo much money on engineering and scientific research - and, BTW, social projects helping lazy poor folks and heathens - money that doesn't really help wealthy corporations, financial groups, and other monopolists who need that government taxpayer investment in their sectors helping their businesses...