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Le 30/08/11 16:04, Hop a écrit :
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/ind...?topic=26560.0

She suggests transferring money from SLS to help fund commercial crew:

?We need to get on with the task of building affordable launch systems
to meet our nation?s needs for access to low Earth orbit, instead of
promoting grandiose concepts which keep us vulnerable in the short and
medium terms. The most responsible course of action for the United
States is to dramatically accelerate the commercial crew systems
already under development.

?I am calling on General Bolden, the NASA Administrator, to propose an
emergency transfer of funding from unobligated balances in other
programs, including the Space Launch System, to NASA?s commercial crew
initiative. Funding should be used to speed up the efforts of the
four current industry partners to develop their systems and
potentially expand the recent awards to include the best applicants
for launch vehicle development."

I still do not understand the logic behind giving public founds to
private entreprises.

Either the private entreprise is private and shareholders share the
profits and the looses, or it is public and the taxpayers pays for it
and reaps the rewards.

As you would have it, the profits are private and the risk and
investments should be payed by the taxpayers.

??

The alternative, in the US, appears to be Orion, which is an all
government owned and operated vehicle. How would that be better?

Jeff
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