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"Capitalism in Space:Private Enterprise & Competition Reshape the Aerospace Launch Industry"
Center for New American Security ^ | March 10, 2017 | Robert Zimmerman

Posted on 03/26/2018 9:21:26 AM PDT by Voption

...since the beginning of the 21st century the U.S. government has struggled to create and maintain a viable launch industry...Even as the federal government struggled with this problem, a fledgling crop of new American private launch companies have emerged in the past decade, funded initially by the vast profits produced by the newly born internet industry. These new companies have not been motivated by national prestige, military strength, or any of the traditional national political goals of the federal government. Instead, these private entities have been driven by profit, competition, and in some cases the ideas of the visionary individuals running the companies, resulting in some remarkable success, achieved with relatively little money and in an astonishingly short period of time

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: capitalism; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; policy; review; space; spacex
One year on... Capitalism in Space.
1 posted on 03/26/2018 9:21:26 AM PDT by Voption
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To: Voption

Capitalist Pigs in Space!

2 posted on 03/26/2018 9:31:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

3 posted on 03/26/2018 9:33:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Voption

https://www.cnas.org/people/robert-zimmerman
“Zimmerman is an award-winning independent science journalist and historian who has written four books and innumerable articles on science, engineering, and the history of space exploration and technology for Science, Air & Space, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and a host of other publications. He also reports on space, science, and culture on his website, http://behindtheblack.com. He does not work for any aerospace company and has never received any money from NASA for his reporting.
His books include Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel (Joseph Henry Press), which won the American Astronautical Society’s Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award in 2003 as that year’s best space history for the general public. He also has written Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 (Mountain Lake Press) and The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It (Princeton University Press).”


4 posted on 03/26/2018 9:42:37 AM PDT by Voption
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To: Voption

Plus, it busts up stuff over the heads of 40 percent of the country’s snowflakes.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Ripped a Plasma Hole in Earth’s Ionosphere
This SpaceX Rocket Ripped a Giant Hole in Earth’s Atmosphere
By Rae Paolettaon March 23, 2018
https://www.inverse.com/article/42755-spacex-falcon-9-ripped-plasma-hole-in-earth-s-ionosphere


5 posted on 03/28/2018 11:39:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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