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In this routine press release style story about NASA's Messenger probe, I caught the following which sent absolute chills down my spine.
The space probe is also interesting because its navigation team is lead by KinetX, the first private company to be responsible for navigation of a NASA deep space mission. Their experts are fully responsible for determining all trajectory adjustments throughout the probe's flight through the inner solar system ensuring that MESSENGER arrives at Mercury with the proper velocity for orbit insertion.
It is no secret that the Bush administration is filled with religious marketeers who believe fully that government fails and private industry rocks their profit driven socks. Everything this administration has done in its 7 years of failed governing (sorta doesn't help when your ideology is that you, as a governing entity, is doomed to failure) is to merge government services with parasitic, for profit corporations that have absolutely no experience or commitment to doing the job right and every motive to defrauding the government. In case you missed it, the Justice Department is only investigating 100 of 900 whistleblower complaints- of the 100, the government has recouped 13 billion that would have been sucked out of our coffers by unscrupulous, greedy fucking corporateers.
Now, the most knowledgable people on the planet relating to space is NASA, the russians over at the Cosmodrone, the ESA, ISRO (India's people) and the CNSA (the Chinese). We went to space not for profit, but for nationalistic and scientific reasons- the scientists figured out that a space race was a good way to get funding. Whatever. The only way for privately owned corporations to gain expertise is to poach the talent at any of the national agencies... you know, the ones who do the fucking hardwork of learning how to put shit up into space and and discovering the math of navigation.
Now NASA is using a private corporation of poached talent and paying them more money to do the telemetry? This is beyond senseless.
The space probe is also interesting because its navigation team is lead by KinetX, the first private company to be responsible for navigation of a NASA deep space mission. Their experts are fully responsible for determining all trajectory adjustments throughout the probe's flight through the inner solar system ensuring that MESSENGER arrives at Mercury with the proper velocity for orbit insertion.
It is no secret that the Bush administration is filled with religious marketeers who believe fully that government fails and private industry rocks their profit driven socks. Everything this administration has done in its 7 years of failed governing (sorta doesn't help when your ideology is that you, as a governing entity, is doomed to failure) is to merge government services with parasitic, for profit corporations that have absolutely no experience or commitment to doing the job right and every motive to defrauding the government. In case you missed it, the Justice Department is only investigating 100 of 900 whistleblower complaints- of the 100, the government has recouped 13 billion that would have been sucked out of our coffers by unscrupulous, greedy fucking corporateers.
Now, the most knowledgable people on the planet relating to space is NASA, the russians over at the Cosmodrone, the ESA, ISRO (India's people) and the CNSA (the Chinese). We went to space not for profit, but for nationalistic and scientific reasons- the scientists figured out that a space race was a good way to get funding. Whatever. The only way for privately owned corporations to gain expertise is to poach the talent at any of the national agencies... you know, the ones who do the fucking hardwork of learning how to put shit up into space and and discovering the math of navigation.
Now NASA is using a private corporation of poached talent and paying them more money to do the telemetry? This is beyond senseless.
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