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Re:Arianespace CEO: Europe won't have reusable rockets for a... by Mountain_Skies on Friday May 05, 2023 @11:34AM (#35830583)
The Obama administration should be credited for ending the government's monopoly on leading the direction of space endeavors. And Trump's administration mostly followed that course and stayed out of private aerospace's way. It's only been the current administration (ironic given Biden's connection to Obama being his VP) that's tried to reverse course and return to the cost-plus MIC paradigm that entrenched players loved so much.
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Re:Arianespace CEO: Europe won't have reusable rockets for a... by peterfirefly on Friday May 05, 2023 @03:10PM (#35833863)
COTS began under W.
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Re:Arianespace CEO: Europe won't have reusable rockets for a... by dotnet00 on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:25PM (#35834716)
Lets also not forget that even then, much of the administration had to be dragged kicking and screaming into opening things up for private space enterprise. It took a lot of effort from a handful of people to make the government even give it a chance.

Recently I learned that the opposition to the idea was so harsh that an FBI investigation lasting 4 years was even kicked off based on a theory about how Obama, Musk and NASA's deputy admin Lori Garver were conspiring with foreign powers to destroy the US space program.

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