Space is hard, but not hard enough for NASA. That's why we deliberately choose hydrogen, one of the most difficult to handle substances we can come up with in order to power our big ass rocket. And in order to increase the difficulty yet again we choose to use politically picked contractors who are not really competent to do the job in order to build our big ass rocket.
Between NASA and SpaceX is incredibly stark.
NASA crawling at 1 mile an hour on a billion dollar transporter carrying their launch Tower along with the rocket.
SpaceX blithely tooling down a public Highway with their considerably larger rocket on commercially supplied transporter systems.
I retired from working for a community college 7 years ago.
Their enrollment is half of what it was when I was there and it had already fallen by about 30% when I left.
Many of the newfangled things are not great, but you really want airbags.
I have two friends that are alive today because of the airbags, each of them fell asleep on a freeway Drive wrapped the car around a tree but after the bag deflated each of them stepped out of their respective cars with no injuries
I don't remember who first pointed this out to me but these things are now computers on wheels and just like the computer on your desktop the new operating system/apps/hardware upgrades are not going to be compatible with your existing vehicle so you're going to have to replace it.
We've learned how to build cars that will last 15 years, 20 years so now the automakers have had to find a way to make you replace it in five.
And I couldn't give a crap about ESPN ABC or any of the rest of it I haven't missed a thing.
It's not like there's some sort of lack of things to look at on YouTube