Way to go SpaceX

SpaceX (finally) got its first successful space launch, this being the first non-government space launch, the grand corporatization of space has started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQhtMrUQlE
http://www.spacex.com/

 

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:thumbsup:

Let government die.

 

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so if all of the previous space launches were done by the government, then the government has had control of all of our media that is satelite based? not to mention all of the cell phone satelites?

 

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oh and I agree, the smaller the government, the better!

 

First of all I stand by no universals ideology, as such government might make for better healthcare than insurance companies and government regulated banking might makes for better banking than are present collapsing deregulated mass, but considering the last 40 years of the space age: government makes for bad space travel. We managed to get a man on the moon in a decade yet after that we just do nothing but go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over budget, mind you government makes great space probes and scientific endeavors but price per kg to orbit government could never get down! Now a corporations is doing it for cheap and a profit and for prestige, the kind of prestige most governments have forgotten (except china), now mind you if spaceX fails to make its cheap quota or fails to make the falcon 9 viable I will be force to conclude that corporations aren't the answer for space travel either.

 

http://www.spacex.com/dragon.php

If only they named it draQon.

 

SpaceX rules, if only they hired more entry-level aerospace engineers fresh out of college *wink wink*... ahhh the thought...

Power to the corporations. When a corporate launch system fails, the company looks bad, maybe the company disolves, some people lose their jobs and find new ones. When a government launch system fails, a national icon fails, a showcase of a nation's technological achievements fails, a nation's self-esteme is, in a way, hurt. THIS is why government systems cost more, it's so more can go into trying to make sure that nothing fails.

Doesn't help that when the dime is on the government, people see it as an infinitely deep pit of money and hence waste it, then ask for more, and waste more, etc. etc.

If anyone's going to set things right in terms of economical space flight, it's the renegade company with a lot less to lose.

 

SpaceX is great and all, but I would like to remind everyone that if space travel were up to corporations we never would have gone to the moon - there wasn't any profit in it. We need government-sponsored space travel to do things that advance humanity but don't necessarily make money. Can you imagine a corporation launching a probe to another planet just to learn about it?