The Balance: NASA, SpaceX, and Politics - The Uncontrollable Variables | TIS184

There's a lot covered on this podcast - from the latest bill proposed for NASA's long term goals, to changing my life around my food allergies...it's all about balance. I may have found a balance to living a happy life with those allergies, but NASA has not found a balance to surviving it's relationship with politics. Unfortunate and the ultimate uncontrollable variable in the equation for success with NASA.  I have some ideas (some new, some old and now reinforced) on how NASA can strategically place itself in a good position to be resistant to the distracting variable of political interest and influence on our collective long term space progress. "House Introduces NASA Authorization Bill that Emphasizes Mars over Moon" SpaceNews.com (Jeff Foust) https://spacenews.com/house-introduces-nasa-authorization-bill-that-emphasizes-mars-over-moon/ Bill H.R. 5666 - NASA Authorization Bill https://science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/NASA_AUTH_01_xml.pdf