Re:Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
by aleem on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @03:44AM
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SpaceX is the commercialisation of space exploration and that's just how valuation works in commercial applications. It is, however, remiss to value to science and progress in dollar terms. TCP/IP is far more valuable than all of the Internet companies combined but not in dollar terms.
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Re:Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
by dingaling on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @05:24AM
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Space transport has always been commercial.
Who do you think designed and built the Saturn V? Redstone? Atlas? Ariane?
Commercial companies making a profit.
Re:Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX
by termain on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @01:34PM
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Roughly:
Redstone: Designer: Army Ballistic Missile Agency (Now Marshall Spaceflight Center) Manufacturer: Chrysler
Atlas: Convair and its successor interests (General Dynamics, Lockheed, ULA)
Saturn V: NASA Marshall, Boeing, North American and Douglas
Ariane: EADS Astrium and Arianespace/CNES (French Space Agency)
So, yeah, they've always been commercial, but they haven't always been commerically driven or (entirely) commercially managed.