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To: A Navy Vet

Good job by SpaceX, but the money for the Dragon program is coming from NASA.


6 posted on 12/21/2015 6:02:45 PM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: The_Victor
the money for the Dragon program is coming from NASA.

Temper your enthusiasm for a put down, that's a fixed price for performance contract SpaceX has with NASA. All the risk is on SpaceX. If it were cost-plus you might have a leg to stand on, but this is the inverse of the typical government space program. It's not a subsidy program.

9 posted on 12/21/2015 6:07:37 PM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
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To: The_Victor

It’s good to see American companies working on space projects again. Doing what we do best. I had some NASA funding on more than one of my projects in the 90’s. One first generation hypersonic test chamber comes to mind. There are still plenty of American designers that are asking nothing more than to be turned loose. They really don’t care about the finances. They’re hungry, not for food but work. Even at my age, I can see Mars is within sight. There is an old saying teach a man to fish.
Give a man a job.


48 posted on 12/21/2015 8:41:40 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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