Thoughts on the new policy from Alex Gimarc, over at the American Thinker.
4 thoughts on “Breaking The Government Manned Space Monopoly”
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Thoughts on the new policy from Alex Gimarc, over at the American Thinker.
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The comments are impressive…
The only thing that limits the size of NASA’a screw ups are that its budget is limited by government to only a few tens of billions of dollars a year.
I find it a little strange the perspective that NASA should employ the private sector to augment its capacity to make even bigger screw ups within its existing budget. If there is one thing that NASA has demonstrated, it is that it is a very poor investor of government funds – the private sector is achieving far more for far less.
Some how government space funding needs to become largely independent of NASA – a prize system comes to mind, something that gets NASA’s self interested fingers out of the pie.
Why are they doing this? I haven’t a clue
This is a fundamental question which he discards out of hand. Why even ask it if it isn’t important?
I have a hard time seeing how Girmac’s article adds anything new. Frankly, if “cancelling Constellation cedes manned space to the Chinese and Russians” is a worn-out and simplistic argument, “free-market good, NASA bad” is even more so.
I have a hard time seeing how Girmac’s article adds anything new.
I don’t think that anyone, including Alex, would claim that it “adds anything new.” What it does is to present the same arguments to a different audience.
I don’t think that anyone, including Alex, would claim that it “adds anything new.” What it does is to present the same arguments to a different audience.
Okay. But you’re hammering on the “loss of space leadership is a simplistic red herring so stop repeating it” meme. I’m saying “free market good, NASA bad” is just as simplistic.