Re: `let the market rule in rocketry and spaceflight'

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 00:35:58 MDT


"Damien Broderick" <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>

> I've been wondering how those who extol the market's
>unparalleled success in getting things done faster and
>cheaper and better account for the lack of a free
>enterprise space flight system superior to NASA's.

It's easy to launch a satellite cheaper than what it cost NASA to do it,
just pay China or Russia a few bucks to send it into space for you. Of
course all three subsidize such launches and have already spent many
billions of dollars in development costs; there is no way a company
can make money competing against that.

   John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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