Spaceflight 🚀<p>What’s the cost of a good suit🕴️ these days? At <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a>, apparently, it’s about $500 million. Influential legislators have shown great skill in keeping the agency’s programs funded 💰. The downside to this approach is that it tends to erode accountability, inflate 📈 costs and prolong programs that have little <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientific</span></a> justification. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a>’s space entrepreneurs have seemed frustrated with NASA’s <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/bureaucratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucratic</span></a> pace. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-13/a-500-million-spacesuit-welcome-to-nasa-contracting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/opinion/articles</span><span class="invisible">/2021-08-13/a-500-million-spacesuit-welcome-to-nasa-contracting</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/PorcBarrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PorcBarrel</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceSuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceSuit</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpacePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpacePolitics</span></a></p>