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OPINION: New Space Capitalism – The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars

A Review Rainer Zitelmann has built a career making the case for capitalism against its cultured despisers, and in this book he turns that project skyward. The argument is straightforward and, once stated, almost obvious: space is not primarily a government achievement that private enterprise has recently colonized, it is the other way around. The state involvement … Read more

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At Least ONE Part of America Still Works

This is absolutely unbelievable to watch (at 0:34, you can see the second launch pad start firing off): And the above doesn’t include ALL of the 2024, which total, as of 12/17, 128 launches. Perplexity.ai reports that the launch tempo average is once every 2.67 days. BTW, CASC is China Aerospace Space and Technology Corporation. … Read more

Data Point – Look what Entrepreneurship has done for going to Space!

Just look at the cost of Government getting people and cargo into space versus Elon Musk’s SpaceX (which is doing double duty in helping Musk’s satellite communications company, StarLink, take over that industry sector as well).  Sure, in the early years, only Government (Russia, the US) had the resources to do the trailblazing at fast … Read more

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Data Point – SpaceX Is about to Disrupt the Airline Industry

I should read it more often but I haven’t just yet.  This post from there is from February and the numbers that will tilt to make SpaceX a more efficient, more cost-effective, and MUCH faster transport mechanisms have only continued to get better from it. What Brian Wang is postulating is that SpaceX’s StarShip, along … Read more

This sounds like a great example of private industry vs a bloated Government

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09 The question is not whether government works, the question … Read more

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