Posted on 10/01/2004 7:32:48 PM PDT by KevinDavis
NASA has put out a call to all U.S. rocketeers: help! The civilian space agency is seeking to determine whether the aerospace industry can provide more launch services for satellites, cargoes - even astronauts
(Excerpt) Read more at spacedaily.com ...
If it was up to the liberals... We'd trash the space program and make private space craft illegal.
Algore is looking for work. He is pretty good at this cutting edge type of stuff... and he could borrow John Kerry's bunny suit!
Regarding this, NASA should have talked to Beal about five years ago. :')
"The most insurmountable risk is the desire of the U.S. government and NASA to subsidize competing launch systems. NASA has embarked on a plan to develop a “second generation” launch system that will be subsidized by U.S. taxpayers and that will compete directly with the private sector. In my capacity as founder and chairman of Beal Aerospace, I previously testified to a congressional subcommittee that government subsidies to competing launch providers constituted the private sectors biggest business risk. Nonetheless, NASA remains committed to such an effort, and congress last week approved an initial $290 million to begin an effort that NASA declares will result in the government funding of one or two human rated subsidized launch systems within 5 years."
http://www.bealaerospace.com/welcome.htm
"Asking NASA to develop low cost space access is analogous to asking Amtrak to develop new low cost locomotives or the US Postal Service to develop new low cost electronic mail systems." -- Andrew Beal
Guess they never thought of picking up a telephone and calling Burt Rutan!
True...And he rubs their nose in it!
Everyday AstronautPublicly thanking Paul G. Allen, who admitted to investing more than $20 million in the project, Rutan appeared to physically choke up when he said, "We were able to develop a complete space program from scratch for the price of one of those government paper studies." ...Mojave Airport Manager Stu Witt... said. "Nobody's ever done anything like this before," Pearson said. "That's part of what's unique about America--nowhere else in the world. It's a great day for the country." Non-military government involvement was limited. In fact, according to Rutan, the first contact between NASA and the program participants came in a phone call to Rutan the day before the launch to notify him that NASA would like to send an observer.
by Scott Gourley
June 21 2004
Popular Mechanics
oops... that was reprised from:
The Next Great Space Race:
SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold
space.com ^ | 07/27/04 | Leonard David
Posted on 07/27/2004 5:42:00 PM PDT by KevinDavis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179831/posts?page=10#10
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