I know all those names. I follow space news closely.
I hope every single one of them is successful.
But again, as I said before.
They seek a different kind of profit and answer to the quarterly report adn the dollar.
They serve a different master. It’s good, but it’s not what NASA has to do.
NASA seeks a different kind of long term profit just as important to our nation, and none of those companies would exist without the blood and treasure NASA spent decades ago trailblazing and pioneering and taking risks, and yes, people dying. They stand on those shoulders because this great nation once dared great things.
We DO starve NASA for what we expect it to do and then people kick it because we starved it.
One percent for NASA! No more self fullfilling prophecies of oh, well I guess we will always spend chump change.
Screw that!
Unions fight for wasteful gabillion dollar bailouts and NASA eternally gets the shaft when it is literally our toehold for an optimisic future for this nation.
A future that will allow private companys to follow with business models.
Imagine if we had given NASA Solyendra’s money instead!!!!
Then why the straw-man nonsense about betting our future in space on SpaceX?
Imagine if we had given NASA Solyendra’s money instead!!!!
It would have sunk into the useless maw of SLS and disappeared in about three months.