Re:Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
by adiM on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @08:55PM
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I think that the more important question is, when another company wants to do space exploration in the future, will they also get access to NASA's expertise? Otherwise, the taxpayer's money has been used to create a barrier to entry for the (future) competition.
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Re:Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
by nknight on Thursday April 19, 2012 @01:18AM
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Most of the information is technically available to the public. Some is already online, some is available for the asking. Some is probably classified (I'd be surprised if SpaceX was given much if any of this), and a lot of it almost certainly is under legal restrictions regarding transfer to non-US entities, but that is a limited barrier to an American company that, of necessity, would have hundreds of millions of dollars in funding.