Research in Space (was: Robber Barons in Space)

On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 02:52 PM, jdr7181 wrote:

> The main competition here is the government itself.
> If nothing else, the Space Launch Initiative has
> shown how hard it is to compete agains the government.
> Groups like Beal Aerospace failed miserably when
> competing with their own money (yes I know there are
> other factors out there but direct competition w/ gov
> was a major factor)

Considering that the SLI never launched anything, or even got close,
and had no plans to launch anything for a decade or more, it's a little
hard to see how they competed with anyone.

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Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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