Winning spacecraft will dock with the station at least a year before go time
  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world
    16·
    11 months ago

    Option 1: government does it

    • Government makes plan
    • Government takes bids for contractors to do the work
    • Lowest bidder that can get a senator some decent head at dinner gets the contract
    • Earth shattering kaboom

    Option 2: Private Sector does it

    • Several companies See potential business opportunity
    • Companies innovate in an arms race to develop better platforms and technologies
    • Costs for the entire industry go down as a result of innovative solutions coming to market
    • Financial investments from external sources due to increased traction enable faster development and more rigorous testing
    • Earth shattering applause
      • ubermeisters@lemmy.world
        22·
        11 months ago

        Because our representatives allow themselves to be purchased. See bullet point 3 above, and try to keep up please

        • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          61·
          11 months ago

          Because privatization (and capitalism in general) opens the door for greedy corporations to squeeze every bit of profit they can out of something. And skirt regulation or oversight in the process

          • ubermeisters@lemmy.world
            22·
            11 months ago

            because because because because (ad nauseum) - the law allows it. that’s on the government. We can fix that. No, I don’t know how, and if I did, I would be screaming it from the rooftops.