It was successful at beating the Soviets to the moon. It was an utter
failure in terms of making space affordable and accessible, as was the
Shuttle, as would be any government program.
On 2018-02-13 13:47, Uwe Klein wrote:
Am 13.02.2018 um 19:56 schrieb Rand Simberg:
I'd hope that we learned from Shuttle that the key to reducing the cost
of access to space is not a massive government program.
not enough abstraction.
Apollo was a massive government program too.
Successful.
Think about Jerry Pournelles Iron Law of Bureaucracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy
lack of political will
scope derailment
and the fundamental downsides of pork barrel politics.
Uwe