RE: Another Private Company Doing what NASA can't do

[funbobby51]

yeah, heck of a guy, I bet NASA could blow $200 million in taxpayer dollars on a spaceport if someone allocated it.

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[everittdmickey]

are you talking about the Brownsville spaceport?

[funbobby51]

I hope he hasn't done it more than once!

[everittdmickey]

Actually this is the fourth.

• The new launch facility was projected in a 2014 study to generate US$85 million of economic activity in the city of Brownsville and eventually generate approximately US$51 million in annual salaries from some 500 jobs projected to be created by 2024.

[funbobby51]

so a "projection" to "eventually" generate 500 jobs? and it only cost taxpayers $200 million? Not bad that's only $400,000 a pop. How many passengers were they projecting to have by now?

[everittdmickey]

where do you get the $200 Million part?

[funbobby51]

Friday’s crash of Virgin Galactic’s spaceship is a setback for Spaceport America, the $218.5 million facility that New Mexico taxpayers funded in southern New Mexico.

https://www.watchdog.org/national/can-spaceport-america-recover-or-was-taxpayers-money-lost-in/article_5861d0d3-96f9-5425-bfb5-ecb039f98f98.html

Probably more since then. They haven't been flying the regular sub orbital passenger flights have they?

[everittdmickey]

by the way.
virgin galactic made a successful test flight just recently

[everittdmickey]

• Another billionaire, Elon Musk, signed a three-year lease last year with Spaceport to test reusable rockets for his SpaceX venture and, according to Anderson, has already spent $2 million in infrastructure improvements.

You reckon the lease requires payments?

• UP Aerospace is also a paying customer at Spaceport and, just days before the Virgin Galactic accident, a Tucson-based company called World View Enterprises, entered negotiations with Spaceport officials. World View intends on sending customers 20 miles into the stratosphere in cutting-edge balloons.

So...there are three customers mentioned...one might have some problems paying the rent..

Is that right?

[everittdmickey]

You don't know the difference between SpaceX (which we've been discussing) and Virgin Galactic?

[everittdmickey]

why?

[funbobby51]

It's a boondoggle and example of crony capitalism

[everittdmickey]

kinda like the interstate highway system?

[funbobby51]

yeah, except you and I won't use it every day.

[everittdmickey]

so MANY strawmen.
tell me...why do you not like Elon Musk?