Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @05:30AM from the fly-me-to-the-moon dept.

MarkWhittington writes: In an interview published in The Verge, celebrity astrophysicist and media personality Neil deGrasse Tyson touched off a firestorm when he suggested that commercial space was not going to lead the way to open up the high frontier. Tyson has started a live show that he calls "Delusions of Space Enthusiasts" in which he touched on, among other things, why the Apollo program did not lead to greater things in space exploration such as going to Mars. Tyson repeats conventional wisdom about Apollo and the Cold War. In any case, it is his remarks on commercial space that has caused the most irritation.

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what happened with computers? by known_coward_69 · 2015-11-25 05:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

used to be they were only for governments and large corporations. now the military is buying the same tech as everyone else because it's better than their custom made stuff. same thing with commercial space. there will be a lot of investment which will drop the costs of launches and it will get ahead of NASA