Re: OT: NASA to privatize space station flights?


kuff (Isaac Adams) wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/12/08/space.bids.reut/index.html
>
> With the space shuttles due to retire, NASA is looking for private
> companies interested in taking over the potentially lucrative business
> of flying cargo and crew to the international space station.
>
> The U.S. space agency issued a solicitation for proposals on Tuesday
> for firms interested in handling delivery services now provided by the
> three shuttles, which are due to stop flying by 2010. ...
>
> NASA hopes to supplement, and eventually replace, crew and cargo
> flights to the space station that had been planned for the shuttle
> fleet.
>
> The agency also may have to pare down the number of shuttle flights to
> the station even before they retire to pay for development of a new
> spacecraft. ...

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! A successful government seed program
is ready to turn the effort over to private industry. Soon we may no
longer need government funding to assist man's effort to reach the
heavens. Already the satelite industry in mostly private and fairly
mature, and soon it will be time for human transport to be taken over
by private industry as well.


Dean G.

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