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Originally Posted by PINeely
This assumes that the same innovations wouldn't have been made in the private sector. Did they develop faster because NASA happened to have the funding and specific need at the time, probably so. However, when you start talking about private industry in space particularly when you get into ventures like mining asteroids, you'd see the same developments at a much lower cost to the taxpayer. Just my .02.
When it comes to billionaires going into space I couldn't care less. Their money, they can do what they want with it. I'd love to be on one of those flights some day.
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Maybe, but you have to ask yourself if NASA wasnt needing these things, would there have been an apparent lack of them in the market place that would make a company jump in and develop them.