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In reply to the discussion: Is this what outsourcing our space program means - Rockets that blow up? [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)20. NASA has outsourced the manufacture of rockets since the beginning
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NASA would have never got off the ground without privatization.
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Is this what outsourcing our space program means - Rockets that blow up? [View all]
liberal N proud
Jun 2015
OP
NASA has also been known to throw out blueprints, files, and other data records
kentauros
Jun 2015
#42
I would challenge anyone to point out one service privatization of govermental.....
marble falls
Jun 2015
#9
Only because NASA was being defunded. Not because NASA wasn't keeping its....
marble falls
Jun 2015
#17
Can't argue with people that think its only a US government funded program...
Historic NY
Jun 2015
#22
Outsourced manufacturing is one thing-- private industry running the launches is another.
Marr
Jun 2015
#28
The private group is driven to have a successful launch every bit as much as the government group.
MohRokTah
Jun 2015
#46
Has anything you know of gotten better and less expensive when it was contracted out?
notadmblnd
Jun 2015
#13
Nah, Defense and NASA were blowing up scores of rockets for many years - Germany, too
hatrack
Jun 2015
#21
Quite right - Rocketdyne developed the Saturn V's F-1 rocket engines starting back in the 1950's
Baclava
Jun 2015
#59
This is not the same country that went to the moon. I doubt we could do it, today. nt
Romulox
Jun 2015
#47
The thing is, SpaceX will succeed or fail based on something as basic as rocket launches....
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2015
#72
Yes, and right now they are government contractors, in the future they may go independent on...
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2015
#74
The Space Shuttle was a disaster waiting to happen, and 14 people had to die to prove it...
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2015
#69
My only beef with this whole thing is they should have started the process much earlier
davidpdx
Jun 2015
#90