Topic: Commercialization of space (Read 1395 times)

Stormbringer · « **on:** March 26, 2004, 10:58:34 pm »

Should do too things make space cheaper and more efficient and free up Govt agencies to innovate and explore again. This article shows some promise in that direction:

space service industry...

RogueJedi_XC · « **Reply #1 on:** March 27, 2004, 07:00:50 pm »

I've come out in favor of private industry taking over for NASA before, and I haven't changed my opinion in that regard. There are valuable resources out there to be mined, refined, and shipped back to Earth -- at massive profits. Think Bill Gates is rich? How rich would the guy to find something like this (posted before by Sirgod) be?

Having private industry run cargo to and from ISS would be a start. Getting a privately run refinery/shipping station for all the helium 3 on the moon would be the next step.

Beyond that, the sky is no longer the limit...

Stormbringer · « **Reply #2 on:** March 27, 2004, 07:12:55 pm »

Yes. Thats where we want to be. But this will start competition to be the cheapest and most efficient at servicing the station and other space assets. That should lead to innovation in all space related tech (near earth orbit) freeing nasa to study deep space mission tech. Then the corporations would eventually follow suit solar system wide while nasa was free to study it's first interstellar missions and tech.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2004, 10:58:34 pm »

Should do too things make space cheaper and more efficient and free up Govt agencies to innovate and explore again. This article shows some promise in that direction:

space service industry...

RogueJedi_XC · « **Reply #4 on:** March 27, 2004, 07:00:50 pm »

I've come out in favor of private industry taking over for NASA before, and I haven't changed my opinion in that regard. There are valuable resources out there to be mined, refined, and shipped back to Earth -- at massive profits. Think Bill Gates is rich? How rich would the guy to find something like this (posted before by Sirgod) be?

Having private industry run cargo to and from ISS would be a start. Getting a privately run refinery/shipping station for all the helium 3 on the moon would be the next step.

Beyond that, the sky is no longer the limit...

Stormbringer · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2004, 07:12:55 pm »

Yes. Thats where we want to be. But this will start competition to be the cheapest and most efficient at servicing the station and other space assets. That should lead to innovation in all space related tech (near earth orbit) freeing nasa to study deep space mission tech. Then the corporations would eventually follow suit solar system wide while nasa was free to study it's first interstellar missions and tech.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2004, 10:58:34 pm »

Should do too things make space cheaper and more efficient and free up Govt agencies to innovate and explore again. This article shows some promise in that direction:

space service industry...

RogueJedi_XC · « **Reply #7 on:** March 27, 2004, 07:00:50 pm »

I've come out in favor of private industry taking over for NASA before, and I haven't changed my opinion in that regard. There are valuable resources out there to be mined, refined, and shipped back to Earth -- at massive profits. Think Bill Gates is rich? How rich would the guy to find something like this (posted before by Sirgod) be?

Having private industry run cargo to and from ISS would be a start. Getting a privately run refinery/shipping station for all the helium 3 on the moon would be the next step.

Beyond that, the sky is no longer the limit...

Stormbringer · « **Reply #8 on:** March 27, 2004, 07:12:55 pm »

Yes. Thats where we want to be. But this will start competition to be the cheapest and most efficient at servicing the station and other space assets. That should lead to innovation in all space related tech (near earth orbit) freeing nasa to study deep space mission tech. Then the corporations would eventually follow suit solar system wide while nasa was free to study it's first interstellar missions and tech.

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