Private company developing commercial lunar lander

[99th_Monkey]

8. That's my take too. This is only 1/2 the story, at best. Is this what happened to NASA?

During Summer of 2011, there was some public chatter about NASA space exploration was "being
abandoned" and/or being handed over to "the private sector". I remember feeling like no one
seemed very concerned about this, on DU or any other progressive or Democratic opinion leaders.

Could The International Space Station Be Abandoned?
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/140070131/could-the-international-space-station-be-abandoned

NASA's International Space Station May Be Abandoned in November
http://news.yahoo.com/nasas-international-space-station-may-abandoned-november-195500784.html

NASA To Outsource Space Travel To Private Companies As Part Of Obama's Budget Proposal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/nasa-to-outsource-space-t_n_443549.html

Now seems nary an eyebrow is being raised, and little or no media analysis of WTF is REALLY happening
here, who exactly is profiting from this? ...and are those "profits" not at the expense of taxpayers, who
bankrolled the space program into existence with our tax dollars. Exactly WHO's idea was this in the
first place, and what was the reasoning? What's going on behind closed doors regarding future US space
exploration?

Was NASA "broken" somehow, in a way that privatization is now going to "fix", for some kind of private
gain (which I think are called "profits&quot <-- that's what private corporations DO, they are a quentessential
"creed of greed" and corruption, with purposes aligned with anti-democratic exploitation and oppression of
"the little people" and destruction of the planet?

This, as you may suspect by now, really pisses me off.