American space endeavors are under attack, but before you rush to your window to see UFO’s flying around, you should know that the enemy actually comes from this planet. The enemy picking apart at our modern space program is funding. In the two articles over the government’s financial space policy, there are two sides opposed as of how our nation should proceed to fund space endeavors, and whether it is a matter for the government to control or not. Greg Autry and Laura Huang, the writers of “Houston, We Have a Market: Privatizing Space Launches Pays Off Big”, stand by the idea that the private sector is willing and capable of handling the cost and effort burden of America’s space exploration and research. On the other side, Taylor Dinerman, author of
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In “Space: The Final Frontier of Profit?” Dinerman provides a lot of numbers that signal the almost guaranteed doom of any private sector space research program. His evidence behind his claim that “the private sector is simply not up for the job” is supported on the surface by failures of recent programs under usually successful companies including Lockheed Martin, Beal Aerospace and Kistler Aerospace. Like the hardware they constructed, most of these companies ended up going down in flames under the burden of costs they thought they could handle. Dinerman also cites that many of these programs try to make the cut by “relying on U.S. Government Small Business Innovation Research contracts”, however the failures of these companies even with this type of government aid begins to hint at Dinerman’s true point. The point being that the private sector can not handle the cost of space research with or without the government’s aid, because our governments split party nature will never be decided enough to maintain a program long enough for it to
In “Space: The Final Frontier of Profit?” Dinerman provides a lot of numbers that signal the almost guaranteed doom of any private sector space research program. His evidence behind his claim that “the private sector is simply not up for the job” is supported on the surface by failures of recent programs under usually successful companies including Lockheed Martin, Beal Aerospace and Kistler Aerospace. Like the hardware they constructed, most of these companies ended up going down in flames under the burden of costs they thought they could handle. Dinerman also cites that many of these programs try to make the cut by “relying on U.S. Government Small Business Innovation Research contracts”, however the failures of these companies even with this type of government aid begins to hint at Dinerman’s true point. The point being that the private sector can not handle the cost of space research with or without the government’s aid, because our governments split party nature will never be decided enough to maintain a program long enough for it to