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This is great. Interestingly, a capitalist economy might be provoking a modern version of the space race - i.e. companies competing to meet the contracts push
by ErrantX 15y ago
This is great.
Interestingly, a capitalist economy might be provoking a modern version of the space race - i.e. companies competing to meet the contracts push hard on development and testing to win. Orbital's language in this article, for example, is very competitive.
This is cool; it's how we progressed to space so quickly in the first place after all.
Also:
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, or MARS, to give the launch site its proper name,
Someone at NASA has a sense of humour :D
- hencq 15y agoIndeed. I find it interesting that the (first) space race was very much rooted in the Cold War and as such a race between ideologies; Capitalism vs Communism. Yet, both sides used similar structures, i.e. state driven bureaucracies to get to space. Which seems - from an ideological standpoint - to fit much better with Communism. In a way, having companies compete to get into space is way overdue. Exciting times!