Comments on: DeSantis: Put NASA headquarters in Florida https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/desantis-put-nasa-headquarters-in-florida/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/desantis-put-nasa-headquarters-in-florida/#comment-1542598 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:26:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111320#comment-1542598 Most states already lack NASA centers so it’s hard to see how adding a few more states to that list is going to affect the politics all that much. In any case, political support is only crucial if the government is the only one doing space stuff. That was true at one time but is certainly not so any longer. When it comes to boosting American space efforts, in fact, it has now become far more important to rationalize regulation than to try maintaining NASA’s crumbling 60s-era infrastructure. NASA needs to be right-sized to effectively accomplish what it still uniquely does and not pointlessly subsidized to do things it has lost both the need and the knack for.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/desantis-put-nasa-headquarters-in-florida/#comment-1542511 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:29:21 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111320#comment-1542511 Turning NASA into a red-state only deal could undermine support.

From a cost standpoint, everything should go to Florida–but then NASA would be accused of being Florida pork.

You want widespread support.

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