by Binoy Kampmark
Space has become an extension of the capitalist project. Not that it should surprise anybody. The market, when allowed, has a tendency to be all-consuming, and allowing the Russians the sole means of supplying the international space station was not a situation those at NASA would have tolerated indefinitely. In 2006, NASA announced it would supply two industry partners with half a billion dollars to develop appropriate transportation services to the ISS.
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