Re: Boeing Selected to Build NASA's Upper Stage for Ares I
- From: Leopold Stotch <butters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:33:24 GMT
Craig Fink wrote:
Jacques van Oene wrote:Congress has the power of the purse, not the President. The President can't go around canceling contracts.
Boeing Selected to Build NASA's Upper Stage for Ares I
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28, 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded
a NASA contract valued at approximately $514.7 million to produce the
upper stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. This element provides the
navigation, guidance, control and propulsion required for the ascent of
the second-stage Ares I into low-Earth orbit.
When Ron Paul gets elected in 2008, I would hope he would cancel the
Boeing's contract. The last thing we need from NASA is another white
elephant. Let Boeing spend their own $518 million dollars building their
own upper stage, risking their own money to produce what NASA need to
explore the Moon and Mars. Let Boeing compete in a "free" market with
SpaceX or whoever else want to take product (cargo, people, ...) to orbit.
Personally, without a highly regulated, really socialist monopoly market
place that manned space flight currently is, I doubt Boeing could compete
with SpaceX. I really hope SpaceX can maintain their own identity when
dealing with NASA, and don't get sucked into the Boeing style contracting
for NASA's monopoly. SpaceX will surely lose to Boeing in the status quo
market place.
A "free" manned space flight market, might even be good for Boeing too.
I would think that someone that professes to hold libertarian views would appreciate that we live in a representative republic where government powers are supposed to be specifically enumerated and divided amongst three different branches. Or perhaps you simply would like to elect an emperor whom you believe holds views that align with your own.
While I have high hopes for SpaceX you need to remember that they while they have a lot of good ideas and PowerPoint presentations they have put exactly 0 lbs into orbit to date.
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