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Home / Society / Issues / Economic / Privatization / NASA
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- 'Privatize NASA Now' - Even NASA admits that space travel should be privatized...
www.wired.com/news/topstories/0,1287,21955,00.html
- Critics Praise NASA Plan to Privatize Space Stationa - The Space Frontier Foundation praised a new plan by NASA to hand over operations of the International Space Station (ISS) to the private sector, and called for its immediate implementation. The "Commercial Development Plan for the International Space Station" recommends ISS be managed by a "non-governmental organization" to handle operations and deal with both government and commercial users of the facility, acting as landlord and station manager.
www.space-frontier.org/MEDIA_ROOM/NEWSREL/1998/19981120-ISS.html
- Earth's Moon: Mining or Tourism? - Space - While there's more interest at NASA for a manned mission to Mars, the private sector looks at Earth's moon.
space.about.com/science/space/library/weekly/aa031099.htm?iam=mt&terms=%2Bprivatize+%2Bnasa
- Everything Must Go! - NASA has launched an unprecedented effort to sell its functions to the private sector. Where will it stop?
www.govexec.com/features/0899/0899s1.htm
- Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: The Case for Privatizing NASA - Policy paper by National Taxpayers Union summarizes the reasons why reform of the space program is necessary and advocates privatizing NASA to relieve the stranglehold on the telecommunications industry and other areas of the private sector.
www.ntu.org/taxpayer_issues/ntuf_policy_papers/pp_ntuf_121.php3
- NASAWatch.INFO -- A NASA watchdog site - This watchdog site criticizes NASA and NASAWatch.COM. Maintained by former NASA personnel who do not accept sponsorship.
www.NASAWatch.INFO
- Save the Planetary Sciences from Statism - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has continually demonstrated its blatant incompetence through expensive and stupid errors over the years. Not only the disastrous fiasco with the Hubble telescope (which cost many millions to fix) but other major problems as well. Three of four Mars missions failed, the biggest Jupiter mission fails. Maybe we should stop putting all of our eggs in the incompetent Government basket?
maxpages.com/privatizenasa
- Time to Privatize NASA - The prestigious Cato Institute examines the scandalous resistance of NASA to the societal benefits of privatization.
www.cato.org/dailys/1-26-98.html
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