Comment Re:Imagine a funded space program (Score 1) 89
The space program is funded. The reason for the gap isn't a lack of funding, its a matter of extremely poor management.
Not true. Both the NRC report
The report urged Congress and the White House to seriously examine the mismatch between the tasks assigned to NASA and the resources that the agency has been provided to accomplish them.
and the Augustine report:
"...Augustine acknowledged that they had not found any mismanagement nor any insurmountable technical obstacles to the completion of the current program."
contradict your statement. NASA has been perennially underfunded.