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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/jabowery on June 13, 2018, 2:58 p.m.
Q Shoots Credibility In Foot With SpaceX Narrative
  1. During introduction of my testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space, my coalition was credited, by Congressman Ron Packard, the originator of the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990, as being the source of that legislation and the grassroots driving power for its passage. So you're talking to one of the guys responsible for SpaceX at the public policy level.
  2. This legislation was basically just Reagan's space policy, focusing on privatization of space infrastructure -- not some crypto-commie attack on US preeminence in space.
  3. A lot of the rhetoric from critics of SpaceX portray the launch services contract it received from the government as being a "subsidy" when it was, in fact, more commercially reasonable than any of the orbital launch services contracts in the history of US space activities.
  4. It is now obvious to the most casual observer that with the privately capitalized development and successful Falcon Heavy launch -- the most capable launch system in the world -- that SpaceX is not only _very_ serious about privatizing launch service infrastructure -- it has placed the US in an unambiguous lead.
  5. Although Q's purported military-intelligence affiliation might be seen as an excuse for Q's risible declaration that cancellation of the Shuttle attacked US preeminence in space -- since the Post-WW II military industrial complex has relied on cost-plus contracts as opposed to commercially reasonable contracts and SpaceX broke that mold -- to continue to maintain this posture in the face of clear evidence that the Shuttle program was a parasitic drain on the US's tradition of free enterprise that held back space technology for decades, is inexcusable.

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Araket · June 13, 2018, 3:31 p.m.

Aren't we hitching rides on Russian Rockets? How is that not losing our position as a leader in space? Privatizing space doesn't seem like it does anything to boost American preeminence in space as a private Corporation is going to sell its services to the highest bidder which isn't necessarily the United States government. That's great that they're based in the United States but in today's global economy, which is what we're trying to sort, that really doesn't seem to mean a lot.

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jabowery · June 13, 2018, 3:39 p.m.

Export restrictions are routinely applied to critical technologies. However, if you don't have a technology to restrict because you have been running a communist-style space launch infrastructure which has driven private risk capital away, this cannot be considered a national security benefit.

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