Don’t be duped into believing that our space program can be outsourced fully to private enterprise. It can’t, but this can be a convenient excuse to further dismantle a once a premier world-class agency. Private enterprise, alone, cannot take the long-term risks and and investments that are necessary.
There will be failures. Just like PanAm failed, and the Crosley Motors car company.
/johnny
Bullcrap. Government screws up every single thing it touches almost without exception.
You are correct.
This is what I’ve been beating into the minds of FReepers for some time now.. When I think NASA I think America, Old Glory, and ‘UNITED STATES’.. WE. When I see a SpaceX rocket go up I think of a dude with a lot of money with ‘SpaceX’ emblazoned on his oversized Estes rocket and I don’t think ‘WE’ and this less patriotic and less nationalistic mindset is Obama’s motive for crushing NASA and the long traditional history that goes along with it.
NASA is partly at fault for this as well - they sabotaged then killed off SSTO/Delta Clipper, then they spread FUD around about Rotary Rocket and got that private venture killed off, and basically spent most of the past 30 years trying to kill private spaceflight.
Now there’s a bunch of NASA engineers sitting around wondering where they’re going to be working when they get laid off in the next round of cutbacks. Perhaps they should have thought of this before.
It’s you that’s investing in NASA. Whose money do you think the government uses? Freely given donations for the space program?