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2020-06-04 Science & Technology

TheSpace Age is making a comeback, but it's cheaper this time with SpaceX.

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-04 02:21|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Well, ULA and it's predecessors' business model was based on knowing the gummint would buy their overpriced one-use product. The game has changed now.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 08:34|| 2020-06-04 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 As it exists now, Vulcan is still one use, but at least it doesn't have Russian engines. Still, ULA is falling further behind every day.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 08:41|| 2020-06-04 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Important to point out Boeing, Northrup, Raytheon et al. are all commercial companies. They have had cozy monopoly relationships with the US military and NASA, but they are still companies anyone can buy stock in.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 10:52|| 2020-06-04 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 And SpaceX has gotten a few hundred billion from the taxpayer too. Just sayin.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 10:53|| 2020-06-04 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Sadly if this had happened under Obama we might have seen the nation rally behind it but now, in the Orange-man Bad world it'll be about stopping the wasted resources and ransacking of the solar system!.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-06-04 11:17|| 2020-06-04 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 A well run space program should be as uneventful as keeping potholes filled. The hero worshippers should look at the post about Mattis.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 11:36|| 2020-06-04 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 How many of you are gonna vote for gun grabber Mark Kelly because "muh astronaut?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 11:38|| 2020-06-04 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 How many people here would be more offended if someone desecrated a copy of the Augustine Report than the Bible?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 11:41|| 2020-06-04 11:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Unless,of course, commercial space companies will be subject to affirmative action quotas.

In snarkum veritas.

Want to know what ultimately poisoned our original space program?

The adoption and society-wide spread of the mindset expressed in the following:

Posted by charger 2020-06-04 14:06|| 2020-06-04 14:06|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ There is no progress. We're back to 1969.

Black Panthers => BLM
Weathermen => Antifa.

Only worse, much worse: Now the Pentagon brass, our corporate leaders and the entire Democratic Party stands with the savages.

Posted by Lex 2020-06-04 14:20|| 2020-06-04 14:20|| Front Page Top

#11 The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 14:28|| 2020-06-04 14:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, if we have to really clean house...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 14:30|| 2020-06-04 14:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Imagine. At the Nuremburg trials, it was "I was just following orders." At the Annapolis and West Point Trials it will be "I was just listening to Twitter..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-04 14:32|| 2020-06-04 14:32|| Front Page Top

#14 And SpaceX has gotten a few hundred billion from the taxpayer too. Just sayin.

Excuse me? How much? I think you better check your numbers there. SpaceX hasn’t received more than about $5billion, which is way short of your grossly exaggerated number pulled from your fundament.

Posted by Phineter Turkeyneck6202 2020-06-04 23:30|| 2020-06-04 23:30|| Front Page Top

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