I know she is trying to protect the jobs of here constituents, but we as conservatives are suppose to like it when a Private company takes away Government bureaucracy.
I do not like the language she uses here either,
"This first successful test flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is a belated sign that efforts to develop modest commercial space cargo capabilities are showing some promising signs.
Belated, really, none of those Guvment programs were Belated, they all came in on time and on budget, you really want to go there.
It pretty much disgusts me when the suposed Right uses Lefty arguments and tries for a little government protectionism.
Shame Sen Hutchison, Shame, maybe you should do a little more looking toward helping grow those private industry jobs by lowering their taxes and amending the UN Space Treaty then protecting jobs that come at the expense of the American taxpayers good money at the point of a gun.
And I support NASA, NUTS!
Liberals wouldn’t like the free market taking over for the government.
“that it will take a billion dollars in government money to configure the Falcon 9 and the Dragon space craft for human space flight.”
So it will take a billion dollars to get this company so they can get ready to accept a few billion more.
If they want to be successful as a private industry then they should compete as a private industry. Not on the govt teat.
She will hear from me. Again. Not that it will do any good.
/johnny
I echo everything you've said. I saw Hutchison's comments yesterday, and they SHOCKED me. What happened to the Republican principles that used to celebrate private enterprise?
Look, I'm not a fan of Musk. Tesla, and some of his movie ventures annoy the crap out of me. But, he's got just as much right to compete in the free market as anyone. If Tesla is successful, as unlikely as that may be, more power to him.
And, it's true that SpaceX gives Obama a convenient "out" for the mess he's made of NASA. But, you can't tear down a surging private business just because it might help Obama down the road, especially because that private business is driving down costs in a way the HUGE government bureaucracy never could.
Musk is irritating, and strange and probably a full-bore leftists, but he's a genius with a strong record of success in private enterprise. We should give SpaceX the chance to succeed, or fail.
Join the dark side and support JPL.
Hutchison has not, is not and will never be a conservative. By all rights she should be off the scene because she ran against Perry in the Gov. primary. It’ll be happy day when she (and Cornin for that matter) are no longer in office.
I would like to see NASA continue with a rational program and goals as well, but disparaging SpaceX is just stupid.
If I were in Texas I would not vote for Hutchinson. She’s unreliable and too tied to the special interests within the Republican RINO party.
Having said that, I would never trust president 0 nor the Democrats in congress. Another poster commented that zero would either control the company or destroy it. True.
I wonder if this company is using solar panels or wind for propulsion? More, where will the current funds for NASA be going now that 0bama wants to shut it down? Lower taxes? I doubt it.
Hutchinson aside, nobody can trust one single thing the Democrats are doing or proposing to do. They could care less about space travel. Their only goal is money and power and this would be one more avenue to get it.
Aren’t these SpaceX guys big RAT donors? They’ll get some contracts and some money then take production off shore.
It’s a good start!
Privatize NASA, then education, and the Postal Service and probably a hundred other departments and agencies. Thousands more could probably just be eliminated.
I always thought the ungainly and asymmetrical shuttle looked like a space vehicle designed by a committee of hacks. The problematic and fragile craft always seemed threatening to blow up...and in fact did.
Maybe now we’ll see various space related companies spring up and go into competition with each other.
If the govt wants to launch a special exploration mission, there will be plenty of R&D suppliers vying for the contracts.
Senator Kay Bailey represents Houston?
Then who do Ted Cruz and John Cornyn represent?