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SpaceX has proven that the economics are finally there for private launching. The government should put all the SLS money into the science and extreme boundary
by CptFribble 7y ago
SpaceX has proven that the economics are finally there for private launching.
The government should put all the SLS money into the science and extreme boundary-pushing tech research NASA's doing that the economics aren't there for: protections/psych research for long-term space habitation, space farms, probes to the next set of targets (Europa, Titan, interesting asteroids), solar-system scale communications, and orbital manufacturing.
NASA laid the groundwork for a larger group of organizations to build on in the earth-to-orbit space. Now NASA should be laying the groundwork for a larger group of organizations to build on in the orbit-to-solar-system space.