Buildings at Johnson Space Center in Houston are among the worst at any NASA facility.

Around 83 percent of NASA’s facilities are beyond their design lifetimes, and the agency has a $3.3 billion backlog in maintenance. When you consider NASA’s $250 million estimate for normal year-to-year maintenance, it would take a $600 million uptick in NASA’s annual budget for infrastructure repairs to catch up on the backlog within the next 10 years.

“Worst” in terms of being overdue for repairs, not that they don’t produce great work.

  • WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Worked on a few project’s funded by the defense department, honestly the government’s getting ripped off 80% of the time by inflated prices from defense contractors. It’s like contracting the mafia for a construction project, they know they’re getting ripped off by the contractors for subpar work. But, they don’t care because they went to college together. They could take less than 1% from the defense budget and easily update the NASA facilities. Instead they continue to pay a human turd of a traitor, Dollar Store Tony Stark.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      they continue to pay a human turd of a traitor, Dollar Store Tony Stark

      Not to defend Elon Musk (the human), but hasn’t SpaceX (the company) saved NASA money compared to the Space Shuttle program? The Shuttle was famously expensive to operate (~1.5B$ per launch), while Crew Dragon costs only ~200M$ per launch.