{"id":7799,"date":"2014-05-14T22:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T02:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2014-05-14T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T02:33:04","slug":"space-policy-update-may-14-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7799","title":{"rendered":"Space policy update – May.14.14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Space policy\/politics links:<\/p>\n

*\u00a0GOP Congressman Wants To Block Elon Musk From Competing In Space – Greg Autry\/Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cParing down the number of competitors will help things along greatly because the funding won\u2019t be split.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Query: To which Party and State would might you attribute the above market-bashing quote? California Democrat? Independent from Vermont? Surprisingly, this socialist missive comes from the staff of a Conservative Texas Republican.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Of course, what Mr. La Branche and his Congressional boss would really like to eliminate is that most inconvenient of competitors, the entrepreneur. And the very worst manifestation of entrepreneurial pestilence is, of course, California\u2019s notorious Elon Musk.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Frankly, DragonRider could fly to the ISS next month if it were subject to the same expectations of safety as NASA\u2019s Space Shuttle. A truly conservative response to Mr. Rogozin would be to announce that the United States is ready to move a DragonRider launch forward without further testing, send eight Navy Seals to the ISS and \u201cliberate\u201d our space station from Russia\u2019s state capitalist squatters.<\/em><\/p>\n

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