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Skyskimmer
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First off the primary premise is that it's no longer rocket science it's rocket economics that's the issues. So if your staunch that no matter what happens private industry will never be able to compete with private please start your own thread.
To me it's just seems like if they can get the costs of launch down by a factor of ten-20 which it looks like they might, this will turn get the cost of production down, as making everything super light and efficient isn't as important, and people can start taking risks on big ticket items in space. Add to that, if a government funded programs can go the distance when there ain't tied down to trivial part like just getting there, there's a lot more that can be done.
I say all this from my perspective, it just seems like everyone is far too stuck in the past, talking about things that were only relavent to the space shuttle, or overly fixated on issues, that have known solution such as radiation, etc.
To me it's just seems like if they can get the costs of launch down by a factor of ten-20 which it looks like they might, this will turn get the cost of production down, as making everything super light and efficient isn't as important, and people can start taking risks on big ticket items in space. Add to that, if a government funded programs can go the distance when there ain't tied down to trivial part like just getting there, there's a lot more that can be done.
I say all this from my perspective, it just seems like everyone is far too stuck in the past, talking about things that were only relavent to the space shuttle, or overly fixated on issues, that have known solution such as radiation, etc.