Posted on 04/01/2013 6:12:17 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
This is exciting.
It also opens up private ventures in asteroid mining. If AM could be commercialized, that would honestly eliminate resource shortages in all areas.
And they can start by mining the asteroids that are coming AT us!
You mean like this on....
How about a flight where the engines work correctly or they at least reach the planned orbit on schedule before they start touting to be the best.
Compared to nasa I think they are doing great.
No better way to figure out what doesn't work than to break things.
Beats heck out of the US military procurement fix-then-fly with everchanging specs that cost trillions.
/johnny
Privatized space exploration has done more in the last 5 years than NASA has done since it last landed on the moon.
Oh yeah, Nasa doesn't actually have a way to orbit with something that can be man-rated anymore. They spent all their money on theoretical studies instead of hardware.
/johnny
NASA was doing what they’re doing 40 years ago.
The landing model they are talking about is a copy of what NASA was doing 20 yrs ago and the craft looks almost identical so they were probably given a lot of data.
Sure glad our tax dollars are paying for this politically connected company.
Yeah they barely made their orbit the last trip. Quite a triumph.
Yes NASA doesnt have a way to put a man into orbit, neither does SpaceX. Despite Obama taking all the NASA money and giving it to SPACEX.
Have they had any failures as bad as these yet?
NASA has basically stalled in space exploration. At least the privateers are making steady progress at a faster clip, than what NASA has been doing.
Your criticism will only be considered valid, if they don’t move beyond what NASA has done.
Yeah imagine that, rockets were just being invented and things went wrong. WOW
60 years later they can’t make their orbits.
Why do you guys celebrate this Obama bundler getting these sweet deals?
Not hard to move beyond something that was stopped when their budget was pulled. Oh and they are forced to help you and to accommodate you.
Amazing how that works.
Perhaps NASA should have considered commercializing their services sooner, eh?
That way they wouldn’t be held hostage to government funding.
Its not commercial (aka free market) when the govt pays for it.
The landing model they are talking about is a copy of what NASA was doing 20 yrs ago and the craft looks almost identical so they were probably given a lot of data.
Sure glad our tax dollars are paying for this politically connected company.
From my understanding, they investigated and settled on designs that NASA rejected decades ago. NASA was not doing this 20 years ago, they were choosing not to do this, and went with the ultimately more expensive shuttle design. SpaceX has taken the design and is making a lot of progress in a short amount of time. Would you prefer that the cheapest access to space be from Chinese rockets?
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