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The purpose of this discussion is to consider the Free Market investigation of the recent Columbia disaster. A discussion of whether free market space transportation would have been a better policy, and should now be adopted is intended. Discussion among space entrepreneurs, economists, enthusiasts, and policy analysts is welcome.

The recent shuttle disaster is not the first, nor is it likely to be the last. While Columbia now joins Challenger in the NASA graveyard, along with another seven bright and excellent lives, the policies which contributed to both failures appear to be persistent. Indeed, other loss of life has been contributed to by the fundamentally socialist policies surrounding NASA, including three other astronauts in the Apollo fire and numerous ground technicians and workers.

This group is appropriate for any discussion of NASA, space policy, shuttle disasters, other space mission events, and most of all - what to do about them. We are intelligent enough to build spacecraft to reach planets throughout our Solar System, and fly men as far as the Moon. We ought to be smart enough to establish effective space policies, especially ones that unleash the free market for faster, cheaper, safer, and better access to the space environment.

Jim Davidson
http://www.houstonspacesociety.org/