Thread: CEV to be made commercially available
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Old December 5th 05, 01:46 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Fred J. McCall
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Default CEV to be made commercially available
h (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:11:52 GMT, in a place far, far away, Fred J.
:McCall made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
:such a way as to indicate that:
::
::Unfortunately, Apollo 2.0 does none of that. There is some lip service
::being paid to commercial resupply of ISS, but the entire foundation of
::Apollo 2.0 is NASA, right down to the launch vehicles and launch facilities.
:
:Nothing stops anyone else from buying the same (or other) vehicles and
:sending people.
:
:Other than the fact that they're insanely expensive, that is. No one
ther than a government would go to the moon the way that NASA has
:chosen to do it.

Note the phrase "the same (or other) vehicles" in what I wrote, Rand.
If they think "the way that NASA has chosen to do it" is so insanely
expensive, they're free to do it some other way. Nothing is stopping
them other than getting the capital and technical assets together and
actually doing it. I'll also note that once the vehicles are designed
and built that they'll probably be a lot cheaper for non-government
types to purchase.

The way to show that NASA is doing it 'wrong' is to go do it better,
not to wank on about how you want the money spent some other way.

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all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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