Tangentially, I consider NASA to be an integral part of the US Military Industrial Complex and I find the English-speaking left's somewhat uncritical embrace of it to be strange.
I mean, I get it. NASA is civilian and much of its work is exploratory and non-military, but let's not pretend against all evidence that all of its discoveries are being fed directly into missile development or dual use shit like GPS.
I think we should be at least as critical of NASA as Boston Robotics or any of the other MIC adjacent companies who do civilian work but with extremely obvious military applications.