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Is NASA even relevant anymore? Build a business model that makes space travel profitable. Don't rely on the government to do it, because they'll do an incompete
by dnsworks 17y ago
Is NASA even relevant anymore? Build a business model that makes space travel profitable. Don't rely on the government to do it, because they'll do an incompetent job of it at 10,000x the cost that private enterprise can do it for.
- marze 17y agoI believe that is the motivation for the rumored change, to get more bang for the buck. NASA does some great things with planetary probes, etc., but their manned launch systems have always consumed prodigious amounts of money. For example, the money SpaceX has spent to almost complete the development of their new NASA-funded launch system is approximately 1/20 of the projected cost overrun of the internal manned launch system NASA has been working on (the Aries I).
- dnsworks 17y agoAll we have to do is convince Google that a space race means more advertising opportunities, convince Microsoft that there are aliens who will buy MS Word, Twitter that there are hubris opportunities, and Facebook that there are beings on mars who want to be Poked, and the problem will be solved. Where there's a dollar sign, there's a way.