Because the government should be just buying the lift capability it wants rather than WASTING taxpayer’s tax dollars. By definition they are interfering with space commerce by not UTLIZING space commerce which NASA is MANDATED to use to the maximum extent possible.

sheesh.

They want to keep their insurance rates low, anyway.

Nowhere within light-years of the politics of astronaut safety.

Thanks for the link –

I always asked everyone here how they throught ATK would fare under Romney.

And the answer is very well, though the nation as a whole not so well.
I just wonder what ATK would try to do to screw SpaceX.

Ron, sometimes even politicians have to face facts and deal with them.

Facts like .7 G oscillations.

Googaw –

No business wants to loose their satellite either.
And they also don’t want them subjected to .7 G oscillations.

My guess is that after the Longf March 5 is operational, China will focus on re-usability, similar to that proposed for the Zenit launcher many years ago.

Googaw –
von Braun’s world did not have transistors nor fiber optics, and its robotics were very limited.

One design feature von Braun had in his architecture was re-usability, and he knew by 1964 that the Saturn 5 was too expensive to continue in long term use.

How does SLS intefere with space commerce? It’s designed for a completely different form factor, for a completely different set of missions. It doesn’t try to pretend to be what it’s not — it’s just a jobs program and an exciting big rocket astronaut fantasy, pure and simple. With the SLS crowd we find none of the obsessive aspirations of usurping real commerce, and little of the bizarre twisting of thought and language, that we find with the NewSpace sect of the astronaut cult.

When it succeeds in getting federal funds out of the hands of that pathological sect — when Crony Capitalism & Corruption is cancelled — when the imposition of bells, whistles and safety dances on Falcon and Atlas for our useless heavenly pilgirms are terminated — then SLS will have finished its useful life and I will then be in favor of mercifully shutting it down.

“My answers would just get chopped up, turned backward, and ultimately lost…”

You sound like Romney explaining why he won’t release any more tax returns…

A piece of advice – if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Politics, including the space variety discussed here, is a contact sport, with words the only weapons. If you’re not able to fortify your weapons with context – i.e. why someone should believe you – then you’re going to continue to be perceived as having weak arguments.

Another way to look at it. The art of persuasion is not in yelling the loudest, but of being heard the most.

Yep, great cop out! I believe you recently said you were
‘strongly for real space commerce’
then go on to say that you
‘support SLS’
and then also say
‘From NASA give me instead exciting programs that do not interfere with space commerce.’ Ahem, SLS?
Well come on, which one is it?

My answers would just get chopped up, turned backward, and ultimately lost in your blender of a mind, just as they have all the many previous times I have answered this question.

Yep.

You should try learning space development history 101 some time.