tinkering by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Jobs's garage in an area now called Examples of major technological advances within the limits of private initiative are many. Most major technological advances in society have taken place outside under the government intervention. Governments sought to control people. Governments role is to preserve the environment for freedom and democracy so that intellectual curiosity can flourish in that environment. Governments role is to provide support, and should not be in the nuts and bolts operation of putting people into space. Inventiveness man within the limits of private initiative has resulted in most of the technological advances we have today.
Cosmos will be explored by people who operate from the bottom of private companies and the technology needed to explore the cosmos will be developed within this company. Why is it so. NASA is an agency driven by fear of tragedy. More accidents will reduce the likelihood of sufficient public funds. This cycle of fear, accidents, and the hope for continued funding is one that seems to have no end. But accidents are a part of the company to put explorers in space. What can better withstand the expected accident. A public authority or private company. If a private enterprise fails, the competitor steps in to fill the hole and the engine of private companies can continue to push people into space. NASA is not a private company, competing on the world market place.
NASA is not what it used to be during the Apollo days. Given the current mindset and culture, it will be difficult within this framework that send people out into the cosmos, like true explorers. They have nuts and bolts of putting people into space to private contractors. But these NASA NASA contractors have the same mind set, because they are under domination of NASA. There is a fear of accidents within the contractors without any real competition in the market. NASA awards contracts for the lowest bidder. Is the lowest bidder offers the highest degree of safety. When a company is awarded a contract, they remain a NASA contractor for many years and become merely an extension of NASA. Therefore, NASA will be an autocratic agency with the arms extend out to many companies. NASA's human spaceflight program can not do more as low trajectory. Year after year, with low orbit not excite the American people. Astronauts today are no longer household names. An American president here and that will give a speech saying we need to Mars. Even President Bush's January 14, 2004 talk already seems to have been forgotten by the American public.
When we went to the moon this was the beginning of an exploration. A target was placed on 25 May 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, during a speech at a joint session of Congress to reach the moon before the end of this decade. NASA kicked into high gear and achieved one of the greatest achievements in human history. We took the first step into the room and then just stopped. Since then, all in human spaceflight has never gone beyond low earth orbit, and the American public becomes bored easily. To get the
A private company is not a bureaucracy. If security issues arise from qualified staff within a bureaucracy, these issues do not resonate with the right people in the organization. One example of knowledge about a huge potential for an O-ring failures at low temperatures between the segments of the solid rocket boosters of space shuttle, which was found in the bureaucracy of NASA before the space shuttle Challenger explosion. More specifically, this important information in the form of the likelihood that the O-ring compromise was expressed by engineers at Morton Thiokol, the contractor for the development and production of the solid rocket boosters. This information never pushed upward from Morton Thiokol to the right people in the NASA organization.
In private companies, which are non-bureaucratic nature, a relatively small group of people working toward a common goal. In this situation, security issues arise, will be known by all members of the organization. Security issues would not be lost in a bureaucracy. NASA depends on contractors to deliver a high level of security. A private company will depend on itself to provide a high degree of certainty. The structure of a private company, is more suited to the endeavor of sending explorers into space. The government should subsidize the most promising companies with the understanding that the deployment of explorers into space actually benefit humanity.
Americans are at their best when they compete. Competition is an integral part of American society. What was the driving force that put us on the moon. It was competition with the Russians. At present, this kind of competition does not exist. Although it seems as though
It will explore the cosmos with private enterprise is the engine. If a company fails, will any of the competing companies win. Ensure that there will be some hazards and risks will be taken because it is the nature of the business. But when unfortunate disasters or accidents occur, the private companies the engine will not go into a complete halt. Burt Rutan and his Scaled Composites team has taken the first step in this archetypal dream of exploring the cosmos, and they did it with a portion of the budget that NASA uses and with a team of 130 or so people to boot. They won the Ansari X-Prize by sending a man into space and return him safely to the ground and then repeated this for two weeks. An incredible accomplishment, given the facilities and resources that were available to them. This can only happen in a society where freedom and democracy, seen as a right for all individuals.
Burt Rutan has said that he never worked a day in his life. He just plays. His passion for his work is what produces results. Burt Rutan and his team are the heart of what makes the
NASA has played the major role by lighting the torch to send humans to the moon. We have now reached a point in human history when this torch should be passed to private companies. God has placed the planets and all the stars in the universe is one reason. It is God's will for us to move into the final frontier. We do this to satisfy the natural curiosity that God has given to us, and in the process we improve the lot of humanity. Lets go ...
