sithelephant t1_jdkdt6g wrote on March 25, 2023 at 12:50 AM

Reply to comment by VicenteOlisipo in Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches by Zhukov-74

Buying a service from someone cheaper that you can source that service elsewhere is not actually a subsidy.

VicenteOlisipo t1_jdkl1ms wrote on March 25, 2023 at 1:47 AM

Play whatever semantic games you want, loads of federal money went into developing the private tech instead of going to NASA or other federal tech funding. I'm not saying it was a bad bet, I'm saying is we can't just achieve the same results but adopting similar looking policies except without the money.