• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The privatizing of everything will continue, now get back to your wage.

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      6 months ago

      ULA is already a private company. I don’t think the US government has done any of their own work to get to space since the shuttle.

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          6 months ago

          The SLS is arguable, I’d say. The design requirements were set by the government, but it’s not built by NASA. It’s built by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and ULA, all of which are private companies. I don’t think NASA has ever built a rocket, actual construction has always been contracted out to private companies. Even the first Atlas was repurposed from an ICBM built by Convair and General Dynamics.

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            And even if SLS is an example of non-private rocketry, it’s hardly something that should be touted as a positive example. Especially not when launch pace is your criterion.

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        6 months ago

        The Space Shuttle was also a private company. United Space Alliance LLC owned the Space Shuttles, United Launch Alliance LLC owns the military rockets, Deep Space Transport LLC owns the SLS rocket.

        “Privatized” space just means instead of the government hiring Boeing or Lockheed to design a rocket according to their requirements, picking contractors to build it, and creating an LLC owned by all the contractors to pay them, Jeff Bezos hires ex-Boeing and Lockheed employees to build a rocket to his requirements, and then sues the government until they agree to pay him to launch it.