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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program (interestingengineering.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That would also work.

The only thing that won't work for space is the thing we're doing now:

  • Maintaining a vice-like government control
  • Using that government authority to choose not to move forward

Progress only stops under a narrow set of conditions that need to be actively implemented by the government. Progress is actually natural, and progress stopping requires enormous centralized effort to interfere with people getting things done.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I disagree privitizing space will do absolutly nothing but lead to balooned costs and stagnation.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Theoretically private programs would be an increased cost over a NASA only program since private companies want a profit margin.

But Congress being what it is tends to require NASA programs to create jobs in a lot of different voting districts across the country which leads to an insane amount of inefficiencies.

We can't have nice things because of pork barrel politics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Private Companies however have no insintive to actualy innovate, if you look at them they are all taking decades old NASA and USSR Space program tech and resuing it ... and callling it innovation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry... this is not true lol. You know what SpaceX is up to, right? At the least, but there are tons of interesting and innovative companies. I mean hell look at Stoke Space