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Space transport has always been commercial. Who do you think designed and built the Saturn V? Redstone? Atlas? Ariane? Commercial companies making a profit.
by dingaling 12y ago
Space transport has always been commercial.
Who do you think designed and built the Saturn V? Redstone? Atlas? Ariane?
Commercial companies making a profit.
- termain 12y agoRoughly: Redstone: Designer: Army Ballistic Missile Agency (Now Marshall Spaceflight Center) Manufacturer: Chrysler Atlas: Convair and its successor interests (General Dynamics, Lockheed, ULA) Saturn V: NASA Marshall, Boeing, North American and Douglas Ariane: EADS Astrium and Arianespace/CNES (French Space Agency) So, yeah, they've always been commercial, but they haven't always been commerically driven or (entirely) commercially managed.