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[deleted] t1_j25cllr wrote

Reply to comment by ZDTreefur in Luxurious space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development. by EricFromOuterSpace

...because this shit will be built with public funds.

Just like SpaceX

SpaceX is "private" in name only, it was really largely funded by NASA.

The public is funding these privatization efforts, that the majority of us will never benefit from.

It's madness. We are throwing money at some of the richest people/organizations on planet earth, that they will own and control forever.

....so now, American taxpayers subsidized the creation of SpaceX's rockets, but we don't control them.

NASA invested more money into SpaxeX than musk himself.

The American taxpayer is both SpaceX's largest investor AND consumer...yet, somehow, doesn't own/control the entity.

It's fucking insane. People should be outraged.

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Tricky_Invite8680 t1_j26tqj3 wrote

public funds pay for services, even services you don't use nor are entitled too. the largest customers are governments for space travel now. the commercialization aims to shift that, shifting that also insulates the 'private companies' from large government budget swings. there are other US based rocket companies, SpaceX just won the bid. even NASA didn't build the original space proam machinery, it was contracted out, but those contractors were diverse aviation and industrial system companies. back then there was no practical thought of sending an everyman into space...ohh wait, I think that was Sally Ride, oops Christa Mcaullife was the teacher recruited as an astronaut, and might ve been a few others where NASA was trying to market the space program to the public so budgets didn't get cut doing science in space that has no monetization avenue at the time.

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