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It's a sustainable source of Federal tech job program subsidies for the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas. Even Arianespace in France is talki
by api 4y ago
It's a sustainable source of Federal tech job program subsidies for the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas.
Even Arianespace in France is talking about reusable cores now, but I assume for them there's less political pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program.
- pdabbadabba 4y ago> Even Arianespace in France is talking about reusable cores now, but I assume for them there's less political pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program. Honest question: why would you assume that?
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- dotnet00 4y agoI think there's plenty of pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program as well, it's just that they're forced to channel it into a slightly more productive direction due to wanting/needing the commercial launch business. NASA/Congress could have achieved the same jobs program effect by pushing the same money towards a reusable rocket and an appropriately larger number of missions. Although perhaps that wouldn't have been as good for Alabama etc (it's a massive shame that they didn't take the SLS money to improve Alabama's ability to handle higher tech space stuff).