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NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/spaceflight

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If NASA were to re-open competition, one of the bidders could be SpaceX, which has already designed a basic spacesuit to support the private Polaris Dawn mission.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I haven't seen the alien franchise, but I agree with the rest.

To me, it seems to be a problem with IP ("intellectual property"). Setting IP higher should in theory advance private research and investment, while causing scarcity to the public having to rely on these services. Low IP means more equality within society, but also slower research/progress.

Personally I think that spaceflight is only at its very beginning; And it should be heavily invested and researched into. And stronger commercialization of space flight can help with that, IMO.