NASA as a government bureaucracy has no incentive to offer competitive prizes. Doing so would undermine the prime directive of bureaucracy - to expand.
Boeing and Lockheed-Martin have no incentive to favor prizes, either. Why should they? If they can get the government or another corporation to pay the current prices for a space launch, why would they want to do something to encourage other companies to come into the market and undercut their prices? It'd be like a mom & pop grocery store lobbying for a Super Wal Mart to open next door. It isn't going to happen.
It's naive to believe that a bureaucracy or corporation should do something against their own interests just because you want them to.
Space/Science » in reply to Perhaps the best test of whether a space company's truly entrepreneurial: would they support NASA's offering competitive prizes.
Your fixation on competitive prizes is pretty naive
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- Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA?
- Comm on admit it--NASA is just cover for Bush & Rumsfield's plan to Militarize Space N/T (n/t)
- re: Human Spaceflight - a future without NASA?
- Congress says NASA *can* offer competitive prizes. Here's the official link documenting this...
- I didn't say they "couldn't" offer prizes. I said they "won't." (n/t)
- re: Privatization could increase the cost to launch
- There needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing.
- re: I don't believe that
- re: I don't believe that
- Itys a long way between government regulation of homebuilders and haveing a Government Homebuilding Agency
- re: To add to my statement
- re: Boeing IS an entrepreneurial venture
- Huh? Boeing has lobbied AGAINST tax incentives, and COMPETITIVE prizes. It hired Ms. Druyun (a corrupt Air Force contracting official) before firing her last week, too.
- re: Boeing IS an entrepreneurial venture
- re: I don't believe that
- There needs to be COMPETITION between entrepreneurial ventures, NOT merely between corrupt contractors like Boeing.
- Congress says NASA *can* offer competitive prizes. Here's the official link documenting this...
