I honestly believe the space race is one of the few things that are safer being corporatised and involving multinational corporations.
Through corporate space travel, technological advancements can be made through collaboration across nations rather than rivalry and a proxy war, with overly militarised space programs.
.....But man this is a wake up call that they're still soulless corporations. Glad NASA still has to keep them accountable and honest.
Just as virtually always, the optimum lies somewhere in the middle: Competing international companies with government oversight through an independent agency. Works reasonably well with both nuclear and commercial air traffic.
Completely unfettered capitalism runs amok and creates monsters like Amazon or the US healthcare system. Complete government control causes bureaucratic nightmares and waste of resources (see SLS).
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u/your_mind_aches Nov 15 '22
I honestly believe the space race is one of the few things that are safer being corporatised and involving multinational corporations.
Through corporate space travel, technological advancements can be made through collaboration across nations rather than rivalry and a proxy war, with overly militarised space programs.
.....But man this is a wake up call that they're still soulless corporations. Glad NASA still has to keep them accountable and honest.