How NASA’s bureaucracy intends to maintain control over space exploration
How NASA’s bureaucracy intends to maintain control over space exploration. More here.
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How NASA’s bureaucracy intends to maintain control over space exploration. More here.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This is laughable. NASA seems unaware that their rules only apply to US companies. A company has only to set up shop offshore, as at least one already has, and start launching. If the several designs for SSTSO can be upgraded to SSTO, or fully reusable (I.e. Virgin Galactic’s vehicle) used for orbital insertion, then ISS won’t be the only destination for long. NASA increasingly comes across as a petulant organization watching their monopoly slip away. They’ve done magnificant things, but it’s time for them to step away from the manned space launch business.
What is laughable is that the source of the angst over these crew requirements is coming from the supposed ‘private’ space companies that are taking government money to support the development of their hardware.
Here is your simple solution: If you do not like the government requirements do not take the government money.
Would have thought that would be simple for supposed Libertarians to understand.
Nit: If your a US citizen, US law applies to your company, even if its not a US company, as long as your a citizen.