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NewSpace Is Under Attack, Space Frontier Foundation
"NewSpace is under attack; and, we urgently need your help to fight back! Two weeks ago former astronaut and associate administrator, Scott "Doc" Horowitz, apparently taking a page from Dan Brown's DECEPTION POINT, seemed to find a hidden political conspiracy by "a few people in the administration who want to kill Ares I and put all the money in commercial". It's entirely a coincidence that Horowitz used to work for ATK, maker of the Ares solid rocket motors. Last week, when Time magazine declared Ares "The Best Invention of the Year," we seized the offered hook to strike back and do a little truth-saying, congratulating NASA on its propaganda triumph, adding to our earlier insistence that Ares needs a death panel."
One-Off Rockets, earlier post
More Infighting Among The Faithful, earlier post
If "NewSpace" considers it urgent that an existing NASA program be cancelled so the money can be freed up from an existing NASA contractor and given to "NewSpace" instead, then isn't "NewSpace" really just the latest iteration of "SameOldSpace"?
I don't mean this to be a defense of Ares I at all; I'm just confused about how clamoring for government money to be taken from another contractor and transferred to one's favorite contractor represents any new way of doing business. Sounds like nothing more than the latest buzz word du jour for the age old lobbying game of grubbing for slices of tax payer pie.
Editor's note: I agree.