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[-] frezik 21 points 3 weeks ago

They followed the money. The US Congress saddled NASA with a mandate for a Shuttle without funding it properly. The Russians never even developed crewed rockets that could do anything interesting beyond LEO. Everyone else wasn't doing much until the last decade or so.

There have long been plenty of smart people at NASA, and they're wasted on poor funding and management. It has nothing to do with IT.

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