To think we lost Trevor Bayliss, now he really was an inventor. Lets not forget Colin Pillinger who died in May 2017 who designed and built Beagle 1 & 2 having mortgaged his own house to invest in the project. Beagle 2 was lost when it went to Mars but has recently been found again.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...aft-found-mars.
so stick that up your pipe NASA. Billions of dollars verses a bloke who started a project in his garden shed.
You can throw money at problems all day long but all you end up with is an expensive problem. (i was thinking of the UK NHS as is typed it)