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Re:U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscop... by wallace_f on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:44PM (#15286881)
I think I'm really starting to understand more about all the reasons why SpaceX can get stuff in space for a fraction of the cost of Nasa in less than a decade in business
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Re:U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscop... by kobeya on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @08:02PM (#15289752)
NASA doesn’t build rockets. You mean Lockheed/Boeing/ATK.
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Re:U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscop... by wallace_f on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:50AM (#15290936)
Basically yes. The NASA space shuttle was conceived by NASA, chosen by Nixon among a group of possible projects, and then the tank built by Lockheed, orbiter by ATK, etc. If anything, many of the above problems wouldn't just go away, some of them would become even more costly.
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