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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!ofa123!David.Anderman
- From: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Supporting private space
- X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan 3 1993
- Message-ID: <351010b6a@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 11:18:02
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- DP>The federal government paid the early airlines to carry mail. In some
- DP>cases, these mail subsidies were the only thing that made
- DP>the airlines profitable.
- DP>So ... it seems reasonable to wonder if a similar program
- DP>could be done for the
- DP>private launcher market. What I'm proposing is that the
- DP>government agree to pay
- DP>$1000/lbs to deliver 1 million pounds to LEO each year from 1995 to 20
- DP>$1 billion/year, this would be a fairly small program (by
- DP>government standards).
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- This was run up the proverbial flagpole in the mid-1980's, and no one
- saluted. Congress was unwilling to pay real $ for this sort of thing back
- then, and less willing to do so now.
-
- However, a variant of this idea, the Launch Services Purchase Act was
- proposed, passed, and became law through the efforts of a small group of
- activists who are now working on follow-on legislation. Care to help?
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