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To: Red Badger

I think things like Space X have made much of the function of NASA obsolete.

Private enterprise does pretty much everything better than the Government does. It’s best to leave the government to things that only have a government solution. Space exploration used to, but not any more. Time for them to bow out of the “small stuff”.


2 posted on 02/21/2018 10:06:12 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: robroys woman

I think the seed money for SpaceX was less than the cost of this defective rocket holder.


26 posted on 02/21/2018 11:02:27 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: robroys woman
I think things like Space X have made much of the function of NASA obsolete.

Without NASA, who is going to do muslim outreach?

34 posted on 02/21/2018 11:14:09 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: robroys woman

Huh?

When NASA paid Boeing North American, and Douglas to build the Saturn V they weren’t obsolete. When they paid Rockwell International to build the space shuttle. When they paid SpaceX to launch a bunch of rockets to the Space Station they weren’t obsolete.

So what changed? NASA pays people to build rockets, same as always. Just because some billionaires are kicking in some of their own funds does not radically change things. The idea that rockets ‘before’ were all NASA and now SpaceX are ‘private’ is seriously misrepresenting things. That isn’t how funding works


65 posted on 02/21/2018 3:09:30 PM PST by TalonDJ
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