Comments on: One Giant Step For SpaceX

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:42:50 +0000

Greg – neither a socialistic government bureaucracy NOR a fascistic crony capitalist company mooching off taxpayer funding should be sending people into space. When Ralph Kramden proposed putting Alice on the moon, he didn’t try to use taxpayers’ money.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:19:53 +0000

I read that SpaceX received $400 million dollars from NASA. If so, NASA did save a bundle of money I would think.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:32:50 +0000

I small a (subsidized) rat!

Unmanned satellites are commercially viable. Astroboy is not.

Ask yourself this – how many commercial condos are there 3 miles off Waikiki or Miami or Malibu underwater (where there is access to air, electricity, transportation, and water)? Then tell me how viable it is to live outside Earth!

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:22:34 +0000

This is very good news. NASA lost it’s way long ago…I remember the morning of the Challenger disaster very well. Just leaving my apt. in NYC to go to work, one last look at live coverage of the launch and I noticed thick, 10-foot long icicles hanging off the booster rockets. The thought occured: my car doesn’t work when frozen solid, why would a spaceship? No surprise when it blew up, and ditto w the later one. I’m sure private entrepreneurs can do much, much better. Unsubsidized, they have a reason to.