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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 82 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ars reported in February that Blue Origin, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, is the leading candidate to buy United Launch Alliance.

I’m so sick of billionaires and their space shit.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

The privatizing of everything will continue, now get back to your wage.

[-] decerian@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

ULA is already a private company. I don't think the US government has done any of their own work to get to space since the shuttle.

[-] yogurt@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

The Space Shuttle was also a private company. United Space Alliance LLC owned the Space Shuttles, United Launch Alliance LLC owns the military rockets, Deep Space Transport LLC owns the SLS rocket.

"Privatized" space just means instead of the government hiring Boeing or Lockheed to design a rocket according to their requirements, picking contractors to build it, and creating an LLC owned by all the contractors to pay them, Jeff Bezos hires ex-Boeing and Lockheed employees to build a rocket to his requirements, and then sues the government until they agree to pay him to launch it.

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