Posted on 06/08/2016 4:21:45 PM PDT by Cheerio
The Senate is debating the Defense Authorization Bill, a bill to provide the annual legislation to map out defense spending priorities for the year, and is going to consider an idea that would hurt national security.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is pushing an earmark for Elon Musk that would make him, effectively, the sole distributor of rockets to launch new satellites into space. In a battle between two potential defense contractors, McCain is trying to pass an amendment that would prevent the United Launch Alliance from continuing to provide rockets so that his pal Musk can take over that contract.
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That time had passed the use by date decades ago in my opinion.
Pilotfish McCain has found a new shark in Musk to replace the long lost Keating.
When will McCain go away?
So is this Crony Fascism or just plain Corruption??
Question for McCain:
Does Musk pay better than Keating, or not?
McLame needs to make him a pile before December rolls around.
McCain belongs in prison.
From what I have heard SpaceX charges much less than United Launch Alliance, ULA has been overcharging the government for years, and ULA has tried various other methods to prevent SpaceX from getting business or access to launch facilities, so I would question whether this article is accurate.
I just did a paper on Musk and when he learned it would cost him about $8M to purchase one time ICBM’s from the Russians, he figured out that the cost to build his own and reuse would be cheaper. While he may drive down the cost, giving him a monopoly isn’t the answer either IMHO.
IIRC, Musk gave boatloads of money to Obama.......and received much back in taxpayer dollars already. The question is, why doesn’t the Uniparty declare itself so we can find a good, Conservative Party to support?
Of course, his rockets still blow up sometimes. We lost a 100 million dollar satellite on one. And Space X boosters are also less powerful than the Russian RD-180, which has a perfect record in US service with the Delta rocket.
Musk the ultimate crony cannot get a heavy satellite into high orbit.
its not a monopoly.. just until ULA get their new non russan built engine certified...
Also worth noting ula isn’t going to meet deadlines with their new systems and still uses Russian rockets I believe.
Yet. What Musk has been able to achieve so far is beyond remarkable. I wouldn’t bet against him.
It would be nice if we could get Muzlimb Outreach aka NASA back in business.
Oh wait! It's ramadan...never mind.
How much is McCain being paid? We should all send him emails and tweets, asking him what his cut is.
McShamey is at it again
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