Space: The Free-Market Frontier

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[jimkress]

Americans are fascinated by outer space. Many would take a trip into space if they could. But critics maintain that in the three decades since men last walked on the moon, NASA has become bogged down in bureaucracy and politics, with government-mandated regulations keeping space inaccessible to most entrepreneurs as well as to the general public.

Privatization and deregulation of industries such as airlines, trucking, and telecommunications have reduced costs and created new economic opportunities. The communications and information revolution has transformed the economy and society. It is time to unleash the dynamics of free markets in space.

Space: The Free-Market Frontier, edited by Ed Hudgins, explores the various ways in which U.S. space policy can promote space transportation, exploration, and tourism. This book includes essays by Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, private space tourist Dennis Tito, and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, among others.

Entrepreneurs already are providing private launch services, satellites, and modules for broadcast and Internet services. Other planned innovations include collecting and beaming energy to Earth from orbit, a lunar rover sponsored by Radio Shack, and even space adventure travel for private citizens. But such profitable plans require radical reforms of America's space policy and the role of NASA.

Space editor Hudgins says, "The private sector can open outer space and other worlds to scientific, commercial, and recreational use for all of humanity. This book shows the policy prerequisites to realizing these dreams."

[jimkress]

We don't need to pour any more taxpayer money down the NASA rat hole. Space editor Hudgins says, "The private sector can open outer space and other worlds to scientific, commercial, and recreational use for all of humanity."

Don't let Bush further enlarge the Federal Government. Just say no to NASA and the Federal Space program.

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[KantianBurke]

hear hear!!

[Paul Ross]

Just say NO to the CATO communists. The nattering nabobs of negativity who constantly tell America that it should not do anything or dare greatly...nor protect itself or its citizens. A cabal of traitors...stem to stern.

Since the CATO-commies are against it, the new space endeavors are obviously in our national best interest.

[jimkress]

LOL! What an absurd reply.

Communists require complete government control of everything.

CATO subscribes to the Conservative ideal of limited government with personal responsibility within a free enterprise/ capitalist economic system.

[Paul Ross]

ROFLMAO! What an absurd reply to my reply.

CATO subscribes to the Conservative ideal of limited government with personal responsibility within a free enterprise/ capitalist economic system.

Pure unadulterated B.S. Propaganda. CATO is an undeniable front group for those who wish to destroy the United States, and pretend to be patriotic, by shrilly claiming to espouse individual freedom. Liberty without Duties is license. And a nation founded on license will fall rather swiftly.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Pure unadulterated B.S. Propaganda. CATO is an undeniable front group for those who wish to destroy the United States, and pretend to be patriotic, by shrilly claiming to espouse individual freedom.

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You are clearly wrong. I deny that they are what you claim.

Why are you so worried about people who espouse liberty and small government, and have no objection to the government powers enumerated in the Constitution?

[Dead Corpse]

No Liberty, without duty? Isn't that a bit like saying "No Freedom, without Slavery"?

You've obviously never read a damn thing by Cato either.

[bvw]

Paul, we disagree on this. However I'm suspecting your desire will be the go on this. Why? We need a jobs program. Free markets (if you are international, NOT at all free if you are a domestic producer) and fiat money have put too many out of work.

So like all bad doctors do with the aged, another complaint produces another prescription until every home closet is filled mith drug bottles and a timer goes off every four minutes to take yet another pill.

[RightWhale]

This book shows the policy prerequisites to realizing these dreams."

Haven't seen this book. Have seen a lot of these books. They all miss the mark, maybe this one also misses.

Private property rights [lack thereof] is the only barrier to private exploitation of outer space. Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and set up a Celestial Land Office--Washington, DC or Denver would do for location. Staff with a records manager and a clerk. Hardware: a scanner and a database. Cost: $100,000 a year.

[Paul Ross]

I know the CATO-ists for what they are. They have lied too many thousands of times. Their Party Line is too consonant with the same objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. They all want the weakening of the U.S. How better to achieve that than through a front group pretending to be as American as Apple Pie? There isn't a more likely candidate. At this point, I regard the CATO group as an even larger threat than the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment, and the other leftwing-subverted entities. The reason? Some legitimate conservatives are still suckered in by the CATO communists who craftily maintain their 'cover'. You are now on notice. Think carefully, and critically, the next time a CATO piece of spin comes out of the chute.

[Paul Ross]

No Liberty, without duty? Isn't that a bit like saying "No Freedom, without Slavery"?

Wake up. There can be no liberty if a foreign power takes over, dictates all terms of trade, subverts our laws and electoral process. Americans have to exercise the duties of citizenship and moral self-governance...to preserve the freedoms that CATO falsely claims to propound. CATO attacks those very duties...as it would seem from your post, so do you.

[AfghanIraqVeteran]

-sarcasm-I vote we all sit back and watch as China, Japan, Brazil, and Russia improve their space programs and surpass ours.-end sarcasm- In doing so, also surpassing our technologies and our defenses. We have benefitted greatly from the space program. Where is the good ol' fashioned since of American pride of being the first and the best? I say we allow NASA to learn from the mistakes made in the past, and take this chance to clear out the cobwebs, and rededicate there mission to perfection first, not cost first. I believe that the private sector should also be allowed to compete in the space program. Not only would this create competition which in turn would lower costs to these programs, but new ideas, and new jobs.

[AfghanIraqVeteran]

We should withdraw from all UN treaties period.

[Paul Ross]

Let's see you do some heavy lifting for a change.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the ping!!!

[jimkress]

Before I dismiss you as an utter loony-bird

Too late. He already made it clear he's a troll and shall be ignored.

[Dead Dog]

Yah, the Corp of Discovery was a boondoggle also.