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Old January 9th 17, 09:56 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Donald Trum Would Probably End the Journey to Mars

Michael Gallagher wrote:


Do note that Orbital ATK and Boeing/ULA's involvement in "commercial"
programs is almost forgotten when people advocate "commercial"
approaches, acting as if SpaceX is synomymous with "commercial."
That's been my observation over debating this issues in may forums
over recent years.

Do note that Boeing, which co-owns ULA and therefore both the Atlas V
and Delta IV and is building the CST-100 and has contracts for
building SLS (so why would they propose competing with themselve?) was
on the business end of Trump's tweets regarding the future Air Force
One.


Do note that Boeing is being paid twice as much to develop CST-100 as
SpaceX is being paid to develop Manned Dragon. These are two
competing systems. Ask yourself why that is.


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