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To: Dan Evans

This is great! It opens the doors to NASA buying other space services from our own private sector.


43 posted on 09/22/2005 11:42:50 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ
This is great! It opens the doors to NASA buying other space services from our own private sector.

They do that already. They're called "contractors". The work I've done for NASA over the years has been as a subcontractor for a prime contractor. All private-sector employers. Grumman (a private company) built the lunar module for NASA's Apollo program as a contractor. North American has had a lot of work. Rocketdyne has been a contractor. So has General Electric and General Dynamics. Private companies all.

People here need to get off of their "government workers" high horse. Much, if not most, of the work done in these programs is contracted to the private sector.

51 posted on 09/22/2005 12:46:48 PM PDT by chimera
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To: TalonDJ
This is great! It opens the doors to NASA buying other space services from our own private sector.

Isn't that what NASA has been doing for the last fifty years? Bell, Martin Marrietta, North American Rockwell, etc.

61 posted on 09/22/2005 1:43:26 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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