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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5075797" data-attributes="member: 177">My basic issues are twofold:1) No space-tech development has ever gone anywhere without a very specific goal in mind.&nbsp; The new plan has some claim that there will be research on heavy-lift systems, but it is not linked to any particular goal, which means tht it can easily be cut, because &quot;it won't hurt anything we've currently got rolling&quot;2) Commercial interests have very little need for heavy-lift capabilities. There is an ecology of space exploration and development.&nbsp; Yes, commercial interests should be playing a bigger role - there is&nbsp; no reason why they should not be handling the NEO and basic satellite work - but they aren't the ones to be doing the really hard, really expensive work, which is simply too risky for them.&nbsp; The majority of the call for heavy lift is largely speculative, not clearly of commercial value in and of itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5075797, member: 177"] My basic issues are twofold: 1) No space-tech development has ever gone anywhere without a very specific goal in mind. The new plan has some claim that there will be research on heavy-lift systems, but it is not linked to any particular goal, which means tht it can easily be cut, because "it won't hurt anything we've currently got rolling" 2) Commercial interests have very little need for heavy-lift capabilities. There is an ecology of space exploration and development. Yes, commercial interests should be playing a bigger role - there is no reason why they should not be handling the NEO and basic satellite work - but they aren't the ones to be doing the really hard, really expensive work, which is simply too risky for them. The majority of the call for heavy lift is largely speculative, not clearly of commercial value in and of itself. [/QUOTE]

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