The Space Review has a provacative article this week which compares the Obama "space plan" to the disasters which have befallen the military in the past with their miscellaneous schema for procurement, project oversight etc:
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1619/1
The horror stories contained within remind me strikingly of the similar idiotic procurement nightmares I deal with daily in the pharmaceutical industry. No surprises there; I'm surrounded!
Thoughts on the legitimacy of this comparision/prediction with the Obama plan?
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In contrast to the ominous comparison to the military procurement model, Alan Stern suggests in this week's Space Review that commercial spaceflight is "on the verge" and, like the satellite industry, SHOULD be turned over to private enterprise. Which is more likely-- a military-like debacle, or the promise of privatization a la satellites?
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