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So on one side, we have a program that costed > 406.5 Billions (2017) [¹] for a failed jet.

On the other side, we have the entire Apollo program that cost $156 billion (2018)[²], was stopped because too expensive. And we never have been able to go on the Moon since because "cost".

Decisions that lead to the usage of public money by governments is definitively a mystery.

I wish the Lobbyists of the Army/Lockheed Martin/Military complex could do a bit of training for NASA and the research sector. Something tell me humankind could benefit a lot from it.

[¹]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

[²]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program



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