NASA or Private Companies?

NASA or Private Companies?

I vote for private business to take over our space future
here in America.

The Federal Government who have lately on their resume show
Katrina, 2 lost shuttles, huge cost overruns, politically
correct rather than qualification hiring, social engineering
disasters plus switching gears each 4 years has in my humble
opinion lost it.

Many Americans don't trust our Government for anything any
longer. NASA should fade away and allow private space
ventures and entrepreneurship. The Federal Government in
charge of anything is becoming a joke in America.


LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Radical surgery is needed on NASA’s
vision for space exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond,
according to a study released today by the Space Frontier
Foundation—a space advocacy group based in Nyack, New York.

The assessment calls for immediate elimination of all work
on the block 1 version of NASA’s Crew Exploration Vehicle
(CEV) and to delay the shuttle program-derived Crew Launch
Vehicle (CLV)—a solid-rocket booster design now escalating
in cost—while reconsidering the Atlas 5 and Delta 4 launchers.

The policy white paper issued today is titled: “Unaffordable
and Unsustainable—NASA’s failing Earth-to-orbit
Transportation Strategy.” The group contends that NASA plans
are flawed, prescribing as a fix far greater use of
America’s “New Space” industry that is energized by free
enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Over the past 30 months, NASA has made fundamental errors in
its implementation of President George W. Bush’s Vision for
Space Exploration enunciated in January 2004. There is
urgent need, the Space Frontier Foundation’s white paper
states, to force NASA to decisively transform its
relationship with the private sector.

Opening salvo

“We’ve put a lot of time into this … and we do believe the
study will have an impact,” said Jeff Krukin, Executive
Director of the Space Frontier Foundation. “Think of this as
an opening salvo in a long term strategy … a long-term
campaign,” he told SPACE.com.

The 18-page policy white paper recommends that the White
House and Congress should specify, as a matter of policy
and/or law, that NASA cannot develop, build, own or operate
a new vehicle for crew or cargo missions to the
International Space Station or to other parts of low Earth
orbit. For those missions, NASA must buy a service from U.S.
companies.