Re: International Space Station

"BlagooBlanaa" <BlagooBlanaa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nasa has
been treat like a budgetary flywheel to keep the economy ticking
over.

There are a number of other, much larger "flywheels" for that. NASA
budgets have sometimes been used (along with much bigger USAF budgets)
to buffer fluctuations in *aerospace* employment ... but NASA isn't a
big enough lever to affect the overall US economy much.
.

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