I suppose I land in the middle-ground on this issue. but it bothers me sometimes when people complain about NASA's spending when their budget is so tiny to begin with. I know its a lot more complicated than this but if I had a budget to build, say, a rocket for 10,000 dollars and every rocket every made cost 50,000 to make... would it really be that odd if I went over the 10k mark?

I'm not saying NASA is saintly with their money. I'm sure there are unreasonable cost overruns all across the board. Is it really worse than any other government (or even private) agency in those regards?

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