NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

It should be clear that the protection NASA had as a pork delivery vehicle has been breached. Witness the slaughter at JPL and, more generally, attack on research spending in general.

Now that this has happened, expect a future democrat administration to have its revenge on human spaceflight centers in red states. Given the rot that has set in under that politically protected status, I can't see this as a bad thing.

> expect a future democrat administration to have its revenge on human spaceflight centers in red states

Make Puerto Rico a state and move Cape Canaveral there.

That would be interesting. But they don't even have to do anything radical, just spend more in California where there's already a major space centre and less in Florida, Texas or Alabama...