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SpaceX Shows The Way
SYSOP
12/14/2012 5:00:58 AM
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Nanheyangrouchuan
12/15/2012 5:28:37 PM
Just like the internet, don't go praising the wisdom of private industry after they simply siphoned off decades of
government (ie taxpayer) expense and R&D.
In many ways, Space X is succeeding on socialist principles. They certainly didn't invent rocketry or the space s
station that they service.
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DClanton
12/16/2012 9:17:01 PM
So? None of us built the roads we drive or the internets that drives commerce today. Were all somewhat socialist so get over it.
government (ie taxpayer) expense and R&D.
In many ways, Space X is succeeding on socialist principles. They certainly didn't invent rocketry or the space s
station that they service.
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sanman
Privatization Leads to Competition & Choice
12/18/2012 12:44:49 AM
Big deal - the govt may have helped to invent a lot of things, but that doesn't mean private industry can't take things further. The issue is competition. If you've only got one private provider then you can't have real competition, and you might as well be stuck with the govt as the single operator again. But there's more than just SpaceX coming up the pipeline - there's Orbital Sciences, Sierra Nevada, ATK-Astrium, and various other new players. For those who think competition is meaningless, just go back to sticking your head in the sand, since you're ignorant of reality. Even consumers of space launch services deserve choice.
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Ameriman
12/18/2012 8:41:33 PM
SpaceX demonstrates private enterprise spirit, efficiency, innovation.. After 4 decades of big govt, pork driven NASA incompetence, waste, greed... While NASA was blowing $20 billion on it's failed/cancelled Constellation boondoggle, Private enterprise Spacex created new boosters and capsule far advanced beyond anything NASA was capable of..
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Reactive
12/19/2012 11:04:05 AM
NASA's job has changed over the years - it initially accumulated great minds combined with an jaw-breaking budget to counter the threat of USSR space operations - it now builds on a legacy of conducting the most ambitious program of space-science missions which private enterprise rightly has little or no commercial interest in.
I think the era of NASA as a driver of launch technology itself is drawing to a close (although it does conduct major research and development projects with other contractors)- as the commercialisation of LEO continues apace there's plenty of viable investment going into commercial operations which is why ventures like Space-X are now becoming viable.
I think it would be a sad day for people to forget just what NASA has done, and continues to do for the US, science generally and as a rare source of inspiration for the whole world - what it needs to do is streamline its operations so as to encourage the commercial sector rather than treading on its toes - it seems to me that in the last decade it's done
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Belisarius1234
1/14/2013 1:13:42 PM
government (ie taxpayer) expense and R&D.
In many ways, Space X is succeeding on socialist principles.
They certainly didn't invent rocketry or the space s
station that they service.
How right you are. Much of the Falcon series rocket technology was stolen Russian rocket engine technology "obtained" by the Clinton Administration Department of Defense.
Clever people, those American "capitalists".
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