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Posted by WillD on Wed Nov 25 10:03:49 2015, in response to Amazon now ready to strike eBay with ICBM's, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Nov 24 17:36:38 2015. BO has really come on strong in the past year or so. They were playing a decided second fiddle to SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Dragon combo, with Musk even stealing their thunder about fully reusable two stage to orbit vehicles. We really hadn't heard much from BO at all But then this year ULA unexpectedly chose Blue Origin's BE4 LNG+LOX engine over the Aerojet-Rocketdyne AR-1 Kerolox engine for their new Vulcan launch vehicle. And now they've flown and recovered a stage from space. SpaceX has recovered a stage, and they've flown a stage in space, but so far recovering one of their first stages has eluded them.We could be on the verge of a revolution in spaceflight where the government contracts companies to provide transportation services. But despite the Commercial Resupply Services and Commercial Crew programs NASA otherwise stands squarely in the way of developing a real future for commercial spaceflight. But that of course is because to have commercial spaceflight companies flying to the Moon or even planning Mars trips would threaten NASA's "exploration" program and the gravy train for the Red states, and we can't have that. So instead we're stuck with NASA using the economies present in commercial spaceflight to ease the burden of the ISS, but any savings there are transferred to the SLS and Orion programs. We could probably return to the Moon within three years if we made a push to do it and provided commercial spaceflight companies even a quarter the funding we've pissed away on NASA's socialist programs to Red States. |
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