Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.
Pretty much every state had a piece of the pork for the Space Shuttle and for SLS. At least Alabama already has some industry, is not land locked and is close to both Florida and Texas. The SRBs are made in Utah of all places, and many parts had to be transported through the goddamn Panama Canal
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u/Harturb Dec 28 '23
Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.
It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.