"Jeff Findley" wrote:

:"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
...
:
: Not much point in trying to make sense of anything past this point. NASA
: is not a monopoly on space power.
:
:It sure acts like it is. Building and maintaining their own launch vehicles
:and launch facilities when they could buy commercial launches strikes me as
:the pinnacle of NIH syndrome.

And just where are the commercial launch services that can deliver
what NASA is looking for?

They don't exist. How do you propose they come into existence?

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