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Since 2004:

- They sent 4 rovers to Mars, a freaking helicopter, and confirmed water presence.

- They launched 2 telescopes, with Webb forcing us to rethink our model of the universe.

- They made New Horizons do a flyby... of Pluto.

- And they collected samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu!

If that's not the demonstration of anything but drastically high competence to you, nothing is.

At this stage, I have to believe you are a troll.

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You think a telescope that launched over a decade late and cost 10x the budget is a mark of "high competence"? I don't think being a useful science tool is enough.

What's the other telescope you have in mind?

And those two free telescopes from NRO are still sitting idle. One of them is supposed to finally launch after 15 years, though apparently it's in such a complex and high budget mission it might not be saving any money to use it there.

High competence in unmanned missions. But not in manned missions.

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