Comment by scrubs

Excuse me? The long history of success for nasa with and without the esa is staggering to the good.

I got more stories that jd salinger I (nasa) hold the title, and you're (spacex) just the challenger (paraphrase of beastie boy song shadrach et al)

More seriously, nasa has purposely focused on satellites and robots for scientific research on purpose for a multitude of reasons including cost.