I have said so, for years.

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Tom Brosz — 6/30/2006 4:17:11 AM (archived)

I have been pushing private space activity since the late 1970s, and published a newsletter on the subject for a few years. Most of the rocket companies I've worked with have been privately funded. Only the most recent one I'm contracting with is currently working on NASA and military contracts.

Government manned space programs have produced amazing technological feats at huge expense, but have developed nothing in the way of a true space infrastructure for the average user. Almost four decades after the first Moon landing, we have yet to put another person on the Moon, or even a bloody rover, and the systems we are developing for that now (finally) look oddly like the old Apollo tech. For this we spent forty years?

NASA's main job, as it is for most bureaucracies, is to employ thousands of people forever. The private sector's goals are to get something that works out the door. Development culture vs. final product culture.

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Today's History Factoid - Fox - 6/29/2006 10:53:42 PM
- re: Today's History Factoid - Tom Brosz - 6/29/2006 11:06:06 PM
  - Nostalgia - Publius - 6/30/2006 1:46:50 PM
    - "Benefit the American people." - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 5:11:29 PM
      - That's similar to Arnold's plan for CA, isn't it? - alcaray - 6/30/2006 8:37:55 PM
      - written on the bathroom walls........ - Publius - 6/30/2006 5:34:39 PM
        
        Huh? - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 6:06:34 PM
        
        Credibility gap......... - Publius - 6/30/2006 10:00:35 PM
        
        Okay, getting out the hand puppets... - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 11:07:00 PM
  - Go see "Cars" (n/t) - tony - 6/30/2006 12:22:25 PM
    - I did. Great movie, and does make that point quite well. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 3:20:08 PM
  - Six lane blacktop - ER - 6/29/2006 11:52:24 PM
    - re: Six lane blacktop - Publius - 6/30/2006 1:55:03 PM
    - You can go one step further... - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 12:47:06 AM
      - Actually.......... - Publius - 6/30/2006 10:15:42 PM
      - I concede the point...but don't let it go to your head! (n/t) - ER - 6/30/2006 1:06:05 AM
        
        Then again-- - ER - 6/30/2006 1:08:22 AM
        
        I have said so, for years. - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 4:17:11 AM
        
        Isabela's jewels and Inca gold. - ER - 6/30/2006 10:41:20 AM
        
        Selling the weather for profit - Fox - 7/1/2006 12:16:11 AM
        
        re: Isabela's jewels and Inca gold. - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 4:37:26 PM
        
        re: Isabela's jewels and Inca gold. - gbaikie - 6/30/2006 10:47:06 PM
        
        Space privatization............hmmm - Publius - 6/30/2006 10:25:58 PM
        
        From the May, 1985 issue of the "Commercial Space Report" - Tom Brosz - 6/30/2006 4:25:44 AM
        
        re: From the May, 1985 issue of the "Commercial Space Report" - gbaikie - 6/30/2006 6:08:56 AM
        
        Chump change compared to what we are blowing in Iraq - Publius - 7/1/2006 3:52:51 AM
        
        re: Chump change compared to what we are blowing in Iraq - gbaikie - 7/2/2006 5:45:50 AM

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