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but to be fair, those companies are subject to political whims as well, as they are mostly paid with public money. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18683455/n
by kome 7y ago
but to be fair, those companies are subject to political whims as well, as they are mostly paid with public money. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18683455/nasa-space-angels-contracts-government-investment-spacex-air-force https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18683455/nasa-space-angel...
The only difference is that public money now is financing private companies...
- CrazyStat 7y agoNonsense. The private companies have wildly different decision making processes and incentives and have done things very differently from NASA. SpaceX is landing and reusing rockets every month, resulting in much lower launch costs, and you're saying the only difference is where the money is going? Get out of here.