If their funding were limited, they wouldn’t waste money. NASA, JPL, Education, Housing and infrastructure, child poverty could have been alleviated in exchange
Imagine how many people we could have housed or medical debt alleviated or hell even some student debt forgiveness — but no… Billions of tax payer dollars funneled into private corporations.
These projects may be the victims of how the war in Ukraine has gone. If so they killed it before production. How much money did the USN waste on the LCS's aka Little Crappy Ships? Better now than after. The tech will also make its way into other projects. It is wasteful however