Posted on 03/09/2018 8:21:58 AM PST by Voption
At the beginning of a cabinet meeting yesterday Trump spent some time talking about the recent successes in commercial space. Not unusually, Trump gets some details wrong but understands the essentials, much to the terror of the big space contractors of SLS (Boeing) and Orion (Lockheed Martin). SpaceX will charge $90 million for the launch of a reused Falcon Heavy (using three reused first stages). Estimates for the cost of a single SLS launch are difficult to estimate.
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(as always, this is not Bob Dylan, George Zimmerman's brother, or the lefty hack of the same name.)
Compared to the crony capitalism of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which have sucked almost $50 billion from the taxpayers for SLS/Orion while producing no flights, Elon Musk is a piker.
I'm sick and tired of folks trashing Musk for gov subsidies. He is actually delivering launch platforms for a fraction of the price of gov subsidized ULA prices.
Who is really quietly panicking? China and Russia (and the EU). They are highly conflicted. "Space" is something statists and communists can never let go of. Yet they know they will, yet again, find themselves facing an industry where Americans are setting the standards.
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I’m sick and tired of folks trashing Musk for gov subsidies. He is actually delivering launch platforms for a fraction of the price of gov subsidized ULA prices.
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And that makes illegal\unauthorized\unconst. spending of taxpayer $$$ legit, how??
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