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This is the beginning of the militarisation of space. Once the military decide they dont like their "supplier" to be a monopoly they will spread their money al
by senectus1 3y ago
This is the beginning of the militarisation of space.
Once the military decide they dont like their "supplier" to be a monopoly they will spread their money all over the place to make sure that bottle neck is resolved.
- nradov 3y agoBeginning? Space has been militarized for decades.
- WalterBright 3y agoThe Apollo program was born from the fear of Soviet space military technology.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoAvoiding a monopoly of a single launch vehicle has been an explicit goal for decades. For example the EELV program always wanted to have 2 rocket families (even it meant using funds inefficiently... eg paying ULA to keep making both Atlas and Delta even when their capabilities pretty much overlapped)
- klyrs 3y agoPretty sure that started with Sputnik
- ben_w 3y agoI was going to say something similar, but (if I remember right) technically we can go back to the V2?