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To: RightWhale
How bad would I get flamed for saying what I think? Let's find out.

Kill NASA! Let the private sector do the job! Award government contracts to those companies who prove they can do the job!

38 posted on 09/28/2005 9:33:46 AM PDT by airborne (My hero - my nephew! Sean is home! Thank you God!)
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To: airborne

You'll have to get in line to say that. No cuts. :)


41 posted on 09/28/2005 9:35:33 AM PDT by RightWhale (We in heep dip trubble)
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To: airborne
Award government contracts to those companies who prove they can do the job!

They do that now. Most of the "real work" is done by contractors. Grumman built the Lunar Module. North American Rockwell did the Apollo CSM package. Rocketdyne, RCA, and others got pieces of the action. Private companies all. Universities also got a slice. The MIT instrument lab did quite a lot with the LM systems. JPL has a university connection.

44 posted on 09/28/2005 9:38:30 AM PDT by chimera
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To: airborne
Let the private sector do the job! Award government contracts to those companies who prove they can do the job!

If we really wanted to be a space faring planet, we should do it like we built the Trans-continental Railroad. We give loan guarantees to the contractor that builds and maintains a moon transportation system. Give them some property rights on the moon, and retain some for the United States.

A transportation system makes moon real-estate valuable, which can be sold by the contractor and government, both making money and paying off the loans, with interest.

Of course, such a scheme would kill off the NASA pork barrel, which is its only reason for existing. And we'd have to thumb our noses at the UN, which will claim some kind of sovereignty over moon real estate, and we'll never do that.

I'd rather we just gave everyone DVD's of Apollo program re-runs than do this idiot Apollo 2.0.

55 posted on 09/28/2005 10:06:43 AM PDT by narby
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