NASA understands this well and if they feel they need to (considering the current political climate, it's likely) then they will likely start a years-long PR campaign soon to get ahead of it.

I'm sure someone's crunching the numbers on this and other articles shared across social media.

Representative democracies need to stop caring about what the most outrageous media-baiting people in a society can say about safe practices and just do it.

That's called technocracy, and I'm all for it.

They can’t, they’re representative democracies, caring about the vocal minority (or being perceived to) is the key function needed for incumbents to stay alive.