Yeah, why aren't regular folks building reusable heavy-lift rocket systems?
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PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Ars reportedin February that Blue Origin, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, is the leading candidate to buy United Launch Alliance.
I’m so sick of billionaires and their space shit.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Why cant scientific progress not be a group effort with everyone doing their part according to their means?
Don’t we all want essentially the same things?
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sustainable production of (luxury) goods
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sustainable power production
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to evolve as a species and explore more of the unknowns in the cosmos
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wagesj45@kbin.run 4 months ago
I wish we were, through taxes. Though we'd probably just pay Boeing forty-eleventy billion dollars to never complete the project.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Regular folks aren’t sociopaths.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 months ago
Some are, but they still don't build rockets. I think there's some other factor that's important.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The privatizing of everything will continue, now get back to your wage.
decerian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ULA is already a private company. I don’t think the US government has done any of their own work to get to space since the shuttle.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
NASA SLS?
Bimfred@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The SLS is arguable, I’d say. The design requirements were set by the government, but it’s not built by NASA. It’s built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and ULA, all of which are private companies. I don’t think NASA has ever built a rocket, actual construction has always been contracted out to private companies. Even the first Atlas was repurposed from an ICBM built by Convair and General Dynamics.