If Russia teams with China for a joint moon mission, after rejecting the NASA Artemis program will Nancy Pelosi push more money for the USA effort to avoid another Russia-collusion crisis? With Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, among others, throttling up private space exploration, does it even matter what these governments do? Bill Whittle, creator of Apollo 11: What We Saw, analyzes the opportunities.
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The only reason our Gummit needs be involved is to provide military services. Anyone thinking any other country working off earth will be chock full of good will will find themselves sorely mistaken.
Constitutional Carry.
Isn’t that why we now have a ‘Space Force’?!
Having the government involved also means every year the program will be held hostage to congressional Democrats who will demand goodies for their base and other ‘diversity’ nonsense as the price of continuing.
Another option would be for the United States to partner with Israel who has been making more recent entries into the space program on their own. In that the United States already works closely with Israel on military matters and in that the two countries are more than friendly and allies, this would be a good transition in my opinion.
A partnership with Israel & Japan could be useful.
The question is would be: would they partner with the USA instead of Bezos, Branson & Musk?
Like Bill I had been a big fan of NASA. As a student I spent a semester working there and was watching the live, internal feed when Challenger exploded. That stated, NASA should not be leading the next wave of the space race.
They, and the government, should support as much as possible, but more importantly not hinder, Elon Musk et. al. from becoming D.D. Harriman. (For those not familiar I submit Robert Heinlein’s “The Man Who Sold the Moon” and the follow on “Requiem”.
The vehicles needed to get to low earth orbit are not the same ones needed to get to the moon are not the same ones needed to venture farther out into the solar system. These need not be designed by government specification.
We need to return to the idea of assembling those ship in space at a space station designed for such. Or perhaps on the moon. I am no longer sure but those ships don’t get built on Earth.
The USA should run the space program like they did the transcontinental railroad; by providing incentives to private companies for building the darn thing. Then let them compete. Musk could be on the moon in two years I am sure.
BTW – in that story, DD spends a lot of his time gathering funds from other ultra rich. How cool would it be if Musk, Bezos, Branson and others combined their resources and just said Let’s Go!
Bill,
The space station was/is the perfect government program. It cost a stupendous amount of time, money, and resources. It ultimately was totally useless for the original plans. The final outcome was a zero result requiring still more money and resources to keep alive.
This NULL result was a necessary part of the plan. A large government program will ALWAYS be designed to fail so it can be an unlimited sink for wealth and resources. The failure was and is being used as justification of doing the same only more so. It will be promised to give unlimited returns but will only impoverish civilization. At most there will be several 60 Minute and NOVA episodes complete with pretty pictures extoling what it almost but didn’t quite accomplish. Net result: we got a new and improved potato peeler that can’t peel potatoes as well as a dull 1890’s paring knife.
I say kill the government program before it gets started. We will be trillions of dollars ahead of the game. Then, if Musk can do it on his own dime, let him do it and let him reap the rewards. If the rewords are as large as projected, Musk will have twelve competent competitors by the end of the decade. Let the free market decide what to do, where to do it, and how to do it. Limit the government to the task of keeping criminals from stealing the hubcaps. Which it cannot do today with all the trillions dropped into its endless sinkhole.
I believe the Russians are posturing their disinterest to get us to come asking. The Donald won’t do that. They have little to offer us now that we have affordable life and a healthy, developing space industry.
Much of the investment in this industry has been made with government funds. NASA has been the big player. Like all mature government agencies, it is eaten up with politics, bureaucracy and waste. It will morph into the NARA (National Aerospace Regulatory Agency) if it is controlling funding and missions. As soon as we can break away from that, the better it will be.
Lift not life.
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Thanks, Scott!
Orion and Artimas (sp) should be cancelled. And NASA should use that monies to purchase or rent space on SpaceX/Blue Origin/Armadillo Aerospace ships to complete specific missions.