Not if it's government supported. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -----Original message----- From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thu, Dec 9, 2010 23:58:45 GMT+00:00 Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Privatization (Was: SpaceX “Secret” Payload) Joe, are you saying you feel that space exploration should be left up to government and not private enterprise? patrick On 09 Dec 2010, at 14:40, Joe Bauman wrote:
Space X wants Congress to fund it with an additional $1 billion so it can work some safety features into the program. Excuse me, but didn't Congress pay for NASA to do that decades ago? We're reinventing the wheel at the expense of the greatest space program the world has ever known. And yet people find it impressive that Space X can do what NASA did 50 years ago? All this blather about private enterprise doing the job for less doesn't make much sense, does it? -- Joe
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