tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post6571863642415415623..comments2024-03-24T10:57:10.838-04:00Comments on Get the Flick: Space StupidDon Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10219887691182501386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-1114822104356060532012-05-23T21:19:41.315-04:002012-05-23T21:19:41.315-04:00Well said, Don. Also, many seem to gloss over the...Well said, Don. Also, many seem to gloss over the fact that the launch facility not NASA's, is part of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ... and most of the global command, control and tracking network is the USAF Satellite Control Network, also run by Blue Suit-ers and USAF civilian employees.<br /><br />(note for the core readership here ... the USAF support includes a non-trivial amount of USAF owned/managed ATC services)<br /><br />Maybe I should launch an air cargo company to move military cargo "cheaper" than the USAF can. Just give me unrestricted use of USAF bases at each end, C-17's and C-5's, complete with crews, whenever I ask for them and a few other incidentals like that and I am sure I can carry freight cheaper than "the government" can.<br /><br />Perhaps I should get to work on my IPO prospectus ;-)Dave Starrhttp://philfaqs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34690855.post-60105225053777621412012-05-23T18:37:51.202-04:002012-05-23T18:37:51.202-04:00Don: I usually agree with you, great blog. But ....Don: I usually agree with you, great blog. But .....<br /><br />NASA didn't do the manned or unmanned space programs with government people only. The Cape facility is owned by NASA but uses a contractor to run it, etc. <br /><br />The FAA is the regulatory authority for space (Office of Commercial Space Transportation) used to be a DOT office, so that ship has sailed.<br /><br />Early aviation was started with totally private resources (okay, the brothers got some weather reports) but it has always been a mix. If the Guggenheims (sp?) didn't fund blind flying experiments we wouldn't have had the roots of the NACA ...which is the root of NASA. The military also played. And before the 1958 Act look at the work of RTCA SC-31, about 10 years before that lays out a NAS that didn't quite actually get built.<br /><br />Keep up the good work. Great blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com