"Pete Lynn" wrote:

:"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
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:
: Not much point in trying to make sense of anything
: past this point. NASA is not a monopoly on space
: power.
:
:No, on space funding.
:
:I would suggest that NASA currently gets a monopolistic proportion of
:total space frontier commercialisation funding, public and private. NASA
:launch vehicle development funding swamps that of the start ups.

Yes, but it doesn't swamp it because it 'monopolizes' funding, since
its funding isn't from the same 'market' as entrepreneurial funding
for space startups.

:NASA has a critical supporting role to play in opening up the space
:frontier, but it should not, and obviously can not, do
:commercialisation, and commercialisation is the necessary next step.
:
:Not only is NASA picking winners, but it is again picking itself as a
:winner. In spite of the conflict of interest and considerable evidence
:to the contrary.

Nope. NASA is running projects. Nothing about picking winners or
losers in private space.

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