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To: kabar
"The reality is that these companies will be heavily subsidized by the government. It is just more crony capitalism."

Nope. SpaceX isn't the only company pursuing this, which means competition. Further, SpaceX has committed to lowering the cost of space travel and is providing the lowest per-ton cost to orbit. In other words, it is walking the walk.

I also personally think the SpaceX engineering approach is the best going right now.

If you take a look at the SpaceX flight manifest you'll see there are a lot of non-government customers. I expect with the shining success of this mission SpaceX will see a lot of new contracts with commercial entities.

132 posted on 05/27/2012 9:31:17 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Pray for America!!!)
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To: PreciousLiberty
You can put all the lipstick on this pig you want. And whatever jobs are created, many will be overseas.

The US is broke. We will be in no position to support a major space program. This privatization of the manned space program is just eyewash put out by Obama and his cronies. You are being sold a bill of goods that attempts to put a good face on a bad situation.

The same thing is happening with national security. We are reducing our military with the rationalization that we now have a new strategy. No more capability to fight two wars at the same time or one and 1/2 wars. Costs are forcing our strategic withdrawal and the reduction of our forces. It is part of the guns versus butter battle that has played out in other welfare states. The UK, the Soviets, and Western Europe have made the decision that butter is more important, at least politically.

Our space program is being scaled back and dismantled. We are told privatization will solve our problems. Nonsense.

139 posted on 05/27/2012 9:58:05 AM PDT by kabar
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