Re: SPACE: Going to the moon (was: news spin on cryonics)

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 15:34:22 MDT


On Sunday, July 14, 2002 4:28 PM Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> The Military Industrial Complex for non-military projects would
> benefit from global competition. Why, because the world is
> indeed bigger then the USA. More competitors, different ways
> of looking at problem solving, perhaps.

Yeap. I suggest scrapping NASA all together and let the market rule in
rocketry and spaceflight. (Olga would, of course, disagree, but...
Well, you can guess what I'm thinking.:)

A few months ago, someone suggested a way to load shed some work from
NASA. The plan is to get all commercial launches away from NASA.
Hughes, XM Radio, etc. would then have to contract with private launch
companies, such as Sea Launch. NASA would still do the ISS, manned
spaceflight, planetary exploration, and probably military missions.
This would remove some budgetary pressure from NASA as well as give a
shot in the arm to the private launch industry. In time, with the
latter's growth, more and more stuff can be done this way.

Naturally, this would lead to a lot of innovation given that private
launch companies would just compete to deliver their product: launches.

What do you think?

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/MyWorksBySubject.html



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