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Privatize Space Exploration
by Robert Garmong
(July 22, 2005)
As NASA scrambles to make the July 31 window for the troubled launch of space shuttle Discovery, we should recall the first privately funded manned spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, which over a year ago shattered more than the boundary of outer space: it destroyed forever the myth that space exploration can only be done by the government.
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The Steely-Eyed Missile Men of Mojave
by Steven Brockerman
(October 14, 2004)
As the sun rose over the Mojave Desert on June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, secured to the underbelly of its mother ship White Knight, ascended into history.
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The Intellectual Motor Behind SpaceShipOne
by Hannes Hacker
(October 12, 2004)
SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded aircraft to break the sound barrier on December 17, 2003--the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hill.
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Privatize Space Exploration: The Free-Market Solution For America's Space Program
by Robert Garmong
(June 27, 2004)
There is a contradiction at the heart of the space program: space exploration, as the grandest of man's technological advancements, requires the kind of bold innovation possible only to minds left free to pursue the best of their thinking and judgment. Yet, by placing the space program under governmental funding, we necessarily place it at the mercy of governmental whim.
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Value Created by First Martian Explorer
by Ron Pisaturo
(April 3, 2004)
In my article "Mars: Who Should Own It," I stated: Whoever implements the concept of getting to Mars and living there turns a virtually worthless ball of rock into something of substantial value. Let's check my premises.
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A Government-Financed Mars Prize?
by Ron Pisaturo
(March 1, 2004)
In The Case for Mars, Robert Zubrin's book that describes his radical new way for man to reach Mars (a way that years later has been adopted by NASA), Dr. Zubrin mentions the idea of a Mars Prize, which he "came up with under the prodding of" Newt Gingrich in 1994. Under this plan, the government would forego its own Mars exploration program, and instead offer a cash prize (of say, $30 billion) for the first successful private mission to Mars.
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Spaced Out: George W. Bush's Mission to Mars
by Nicholas Provenzo
(January 23, 2004)
Space research--other then for military purposes--has nothing to do with the legitimate function of government.
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A Radical Solution to America's Moribund Space Program
by Robert Garmong
(January 22, 2004)
After years of declining budgets, public apathy, and failed missions, NASA has gotten a big boost from the Bush Administration's recent promises of extravagant missions to permanently settle the moon and eventually explore Mars. No one knows what it would cost, but a similar idea in 1989 was estimated to cost up to $500 billion.
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Mars: Who Should Own It
by Ron Pisaturo
(January 20, 2004)
A capitalist, private-property policy is not an alternative moral policy for the exploration of Mars; it is the only moral policy.
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Earth Worshippers Cause Death in Space: Environmental Dogma Has Led to the Sacrifice of Fourteen Astronauts on the Space Shuttle
by Hannes Hacker
(July 11, 2003)
These accidents are not primarily the fault of careless engineers, nor are they merely the unintended consequences of bureaucrats blindly following federal rules. They are the result of a philosophy that hold human needs--such as the need for a safe shuttle launch or re-entry--as less important than a concern to preserve the purity of nature from the products of industrial civilization, such as CFCs and asbestos insulation.
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