First Moon Landing since 1972

Apparently a first for a private company. Which is both exciting, and scary. I mean, they're all looking for resources - in this case water - so they can lay claim to it. Still, it's all fun and games, isn't it?
 

VaughanJB said:
Apparently a first for a private company. Which is both exciting, and scary. I mean, they're all looking for resources - in this case water - so they can lay claim to it. Still, it's all fun and games, isn't it?
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They were assisted by Space Center Houston - NASA, in this landing. ......"a space cowboy" :)


MSN

Mission control for the Houston-based company needed a space cowboy solution — and fast. They came up with a fix that has since dazzled the science community.
 
Yay! Someplace to send all the homeless people! (Joking.)

It's nice, it's fine, but I read a NY Times article from long ago, the 1960s, when Apollo 11 landed and guess what? Black folks in NYC were not so impressed by Apollo 11. They were far more concerned about their friends and family being drafted to Vietnam, and how they had a hard time getting hired for jobs. Real life issues.

I'm kind of that way now. I'm not Black, but I am truly disgusted by homelessness. So, I joke. More real estate on which to build housing? OK - then let's conquer the moon!
 
Excellent, I say, it is fantastic that a civilian outfit can do
this, I don't know if they plan to recover their lander, or
only get pictures, but you have to take your hat off to
them for doing the impossible!

Governments such as the American one, China, India,
Japan and Russia, have bottomless pockets of money
for such projects, but a company with leader who is
also dreamer, with resources, probably did it for a lot
less than half the cost to the previous missions.

Well done I say, give the job to the engineers and leave
the politicians out of it.

Mike.
 
Mike said:
Excellent, I say, it is fantastic that a civilian outfit can do
this, I don't know if they plan to recover their lander, or
only get pictures, but you have to take your hat off to
them for doing the impossible!

Governments such as the American one, China, India,
Japan and Russia, have bottomless pockets of money
for such projects, but a company with leader who is
also dreamer, with resources, probably did it for a lot
less than half the cost to the previous missions.

Well done I say, give the job to the engineers and leave
the politicians out of it.

Mike.
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But the choice to let private businesses get into the Space Business and partner with NASA was / is a political choice!

Perhaps it was a poltical choice made to diffuse the risk of space travel? To avoid another Challenger blowing up-after-take-off scandal?

Perhaps it was made so investors in companies like SpaceX would take on the financial risks of space travel and not all taxpayers?

Perhaps Congress decided to let NASA partner with businesses so the politicians would get less criticism from voters who might say, "Why are you spending so much of our tax $$ on space?"

Believe me, the politicians are well aware of who the players are and the politicians allowed them on the field.

Politics is still very much in space travel. Don't be blind to that.
 

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