Regulations weren't changed to keep space entrepreneurs down & dependent on the NASA clique? Something pretty close to that happened regarding privatized Mir:
http://www.spaceprojects.com/Mir
Numerous entrepreneurs gambled that the NASA clique wouldn't behave in ways that ultimately helped cost both Dan Goldin AND Al Gore their jobs. Cyberspace kept impunity out of those two public officials' grasps during the 2000 elections, but the change of political fortunes didn't come in time to help companies like MirCorp and Beal (which essentially folded BEFORE the Nov. '00 elections). It's callous to blame the victims, but the existence of such callousness help show why the USA has hemorrhaged world launch marketshare:
http://www.spaceprojects.com/launch
The default language in space ain't English nowadays; we can't even launch humans into space at the moment.
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And you wonder why the USA has hemorrhaged world launch marketshare
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- Forecasting technology and central planning
- So to follow the internet model...
- yes, it would happen sooner
- Any company that wants to, can send a mission to Mars today. NASA cannot stop them. (n/t)
- yes, it would happen sooner
- A few Notes
- Perhaps such antibureaucratic remarks constitute heresy?
- So to follow the internet model...