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Senate hearing that should make you mad

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Here is Senator Shelby defending a company that has a monopoly on satellite launches. In an open competition Elon Musk of Space X is telling them he can launch at a fraction of the price, like 300 million less a launch and without a billion dollar subsidy like the monopoly company. Space X is also fully manufactured in the U.S. with U.S. suppliers and the monopoly company is heavily dependent on Russia for one of it's rockets. What is motivating Shelby to protect this company is something else besides being a good steward for American taxpayer money.

 
Pretty sure this has a lot to do with our defunding of NASA and our current reliance and partnership with the Russian on the ISS.
 
Yeah likely. SpaceX will save a lot of money. Just think once they can do this: [video]http://www.space.com/23186-spacex-grasshopper-makes-highest-hop-yet-hexacopter-video.html[/video]
 
Who needs to save money? This is the federal government.
 
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