Commercial providers are NOT CAPABLE of taking over and never will be.
/johnny
Oh horse hockey. SpaceX has come a lot farther more quickly than CxP would ever had. SpaceX used what works, not re-inventing everything because they (CxP) had buckets full of money.
Cargo and passenger runs to LEO is a great example of how commercial providers can free up NASA to do the blending edge stuff.
Oh, and NASA uses commercial providers for space to ground communications for a number of missions.
So much for commercial Space!
Bullshit
I see you are already taking an assbeating for such a silly comment. So I'll just add this.....NASA did it all themselves, no engineers from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Teledyne, Sperry Rand, Motorola, Bendix, Hamilton Sunstand or any other of the multidude of vendors had the slightest input. It was all NASA. Snort.
Not when they have government handlers screwing with them constantly.
Get the government out of the Space industry. It doesn’t fit anything in Art 1 Sec 8.
Period.
Here come the bizarre comments.
“Commercial providers are NOT CAPABLE of taking over and never will be.”
Right, because the government is all-knowing and all-powerful. Hogwash!
(BTW, don’t forget that the majority of satellite launches these days are by private companies!)
I remain confident that SpaceX will not only resolve these issues, it will also launch manned missions within two years.
Computing power and automated super-precise manufacturing today is practically free compared to the Apollo years. We are also in a natural gas boom so the initial fuel cost will be relatively cheap. I don't think we are too far off from discovering and extracting new fuels outside our planet using robotics. It was only a matter of time until a few wealthy investors saw this potential.
I'm and engineer and am seriously considering moving cross country for a position in this industry.
Of course the government has the ability to derail everything at a whim for its own self interest. What they hate the most is being caught in a lie or when their incompetence is uncovered. What they fear here is articles highlighting how much cheaper private firms can bring up payloads. It will make some people think and ask questions about what else they're doing wrong...