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That Should Slow Them Down

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Pete wrote:

Indians are just bonkers, utterly crazy. Solid-Hydrazine-Solid-Hydrazine 4 stage rocket is their workhorse, and they're talking about scramjet stages now.

red wrote:

Well, now that the agreement covers "exploration and human spaceflight", I recommend that NASA share some of the Constellation responsibilities with ISRO. For example, let them do Ares I and V. Then NASA could get down to business and do the kinds of things discussed at Space Access.

Karl Hallowell wrote:

While I don't think NASA should be in the launch business, it's not healthy to delegate launch services to another government at the expense of your own industry.

Monte Davis wrote:

I don't think NASA should be in the launch business...

translation: "I believe in the power of the free market to transform space"

...it's not healthy to delegate launch services to another government at the expense of your own industry.

translation: "...as long as the free market remains a mercantilist expression of national policy."

Have I got that right?

Karl Hallowell wrote:

Monte, you go it right except for one thing. I didn't say "free market". In the long run, a free launch market is going to be the way to go. But as long as many governments (China, EU, India, Russia, US currently) insist on huge subsidies of launch infrastructure, a mercantilist strategy seems the most effective strategy out there.

Karl Hallowell wrote:

Monte, you are correct except for the bit about "free" markets. In a time when there are numerious heavily subsidized government programs, it makes little sense to attempt a free market solution. A mercantilist strategy seems a more effective under the circumstances.

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