NASA or Private Companies?

NASA or Private Companies?

I vote for private business to take over our space future here in America.

The Federal Government who have lately on their resume show Katrina, 2 lost shuttles, huge cost overruns, politically correct rather than qualification hiring, social engineering disasters plus switching gears each 4 years has in my humble opinion lost it.

Many Americans don't trust our Government for anything any longer. NASA should fade away and allow private space ventures and entrepreneurship. The Federal Government in charge of anything is becoming a joke in America.


LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Radical surgery is needed on NASA’s vision for space exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond, according to a study released today by the Space Frontier Foundation—a space advocacy group based in Nyack, New York.

The assessment calls for immediate elimination of all work on the block 1 version of NASA’s Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and to delay the shuttle program-derived Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV)—a solid-rocket booster design now escalating in cost—while reconsidering the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 launchers.

The policy white paper issued today is titled: “Unaffordable and Unsustainable—NASA’s failing Earth-to-orbit Transportation Strategy.” The group contends that NASA plans are flawed, prescribing as a fix far greater use of America’s “New Space” industry that is energized by free enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Over the past 30 months, NASA has made fundamental errors in its implementation of President George W. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration enunciated in January 2004. There is urgent need, the Space Frontier Foundation’s white paper states, to force NASA to decisively transform its relationship with the private sector.

Opening salvo

“We’ve put a lot of time into this … and we do believe the study will have an impact,” said Jeff Krukin, Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation. “Think of this as an opening salvo in a long term strategy … a long-term campaign,” he told SPACE.com.

The 18-page policy white paper recommends that the White House and Congress should specify, as a matter of policy and/or law, that NASA cannot develop, build, own or operate a new vehicle for crew or cargo missions to the International Space Station or to other parts of low Earth orbit. For those missions, NASA must buy a service from U.S. companies.
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