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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:01:05 -0400
From: CloudRider@aol.com
Subject: NASA privatizes..."Skunk Works" guys form new "USA."

1 October 1996
To those copied -- "NASA privatizes" follows commentary:
(Background & Perspective. One opinion.)
From: Dick Farley <cloudrider@aol.com>
***  Well? We have a better and bigger picture of "Space, the Final
Frontier." And the "wild west" model is going to prevail, at least for the
next century, over that of a "Common Heritage" scandal which the "other"
American & "internationalists" were manipulating 3rd World interests into
welcoming, via "UFO visitors here to transform our beleagured planet,"
landing at Harvard, et al. Instead, it's NAFTA, GATT & NWO in Space. We're
going to be "Klingons," instead of a "Federation," for a while.
  Much as occurred during the 1970s and '80s "Law of the Sea" debate, when
so-called "non-aligned" nations, (usually ruled by technocrats and "competing
elites" standing on the shoulders of their once-colonial peoples, now simply
serfs of planetary geo-politics), who wanted their share of the "Common
Heritage of Mankind," (only they'd take their share out in hard cash from the
mining of manganese nodules, nickel and other goodies we would vacuum from
the sea floor), we are moving "off-world."
  Well? Same thing for the Asteroid Belt, when the "USA" (not to be confused
with our own "U. S. of A."), at long last gets "out there." No worrysome
"public accountability" and bothersome "Freedom of Information Act" kinds of
drags on profit motives.
While everyone with a smattering of "otherworldly focus" was busy "Watching
the Skies" for huggy aliens here to take care of our "poor, polluted,
humidifying greenhouse planet," (or so said the Internationalistas'
scientific cadre), the corporate pioneer spirit has zoomed on its own to the
"High Frontier." Whether it will work out for the better and higher "angels"
of humankind will depend on the degree to which balance can be maintained.
 It is of significance that "SETI" was suddenly privatized, in a burst of
uncharacteristic fiscal restraint by Nevada's Sen. Bryan (a Democrat, of all
things). Perhaps he's serving "The 9"?
   Back during "Law of the Sea," when push came to shove even internationally
focused advocates like Jacques-Yves Cousteau were frustrated and disenchanted
by the abject greed of many of the so-called "Group of 77" Non-Aligned
Nations, headed by Ambassador Tommy Koh...who some say fronted for powerful
"international financers" allegedly pulling strings from behind the scenes,
(a la "Wizards of Oz"). When President Reagan's guy at Law of the Sea finally
voted against LOS, (although later it was approved, greatly modified), Capt.
Cousteau was reduced to writing poetry about a planetary inability to put the
future ahead of short-term thinking and stupid, nationalistic greed.
  Who was or is or will be proven right? As in space, and more economically
importantly, on the Moon, Mars and asteroids, it will be a while until the
tolls are paid and the scores marked.
But we now have a better understanding of recent "UFOlogical" follies: WHY
we're keeping any supposed "super-technologies" and/or "alien contacts"
closely guarded. Just as with how and why the "big boys" defrauded American
and global consumers about our potential for non-destructive energy
alternatives, so also has the rocket science of our ex-Nazi space pioneers
won the day over "whatever else" may be "out there." Why? "We're not ready,"
the priest-kings have ruled. And maybe we're not.
  No wonder the "big boys" didn't want have Clinton declassify our "UFOs." In
space, along the "high frontier," USA no longer means United States of
America. It means Military-Industrial Complex, Inc., something Eisenhower
warned us to "beware." And it is significant that much of the hoopla, money
and effort to "publicize" such idiocies as Roswell's "crashed saucer," or
John Mack's electro-neurological "alien abductions," got its money from some
of the very same moguls who hold the power, or sell us the means to get it,
fuel it, distribute it and use it!
  Now if senior managements are "Rockefellerian Freemasons," the worst fears
of the conspiracists and militia members will not have sufficed to imagine
corporate techno-fascism coming to a planet near you, at a time not so very
far off. But if on the other hand, it hasn't been about "that," we'll simply
"progress." Watch the skies. Follow the money...but keep your copy of the U.
S. Constitution close by, on paper, not in an Ephemeral Format.
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NASA Operations Go Private...

.c The Associated Press

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Oct. 1) - NASA enters a new era today as it begins
turning over day-to-day shuttle operations to private industry to try to cut
costs, the biggest change in the history of the program.

    ''This is a very, very major turning point for this agency,'' NASA
Administrator Daniel Goldin said Monday in announcing the $7 billion,
six-year contract with United Space Alliance, a joint venture of Rockwell
International Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp.

    Officials promise the shift will be gradual, with shuttle flight safety
the No. 1 priority. In the short term, not even NASA and its contract workers
will see much difference.

    NASA still will give the final ''go'' for launch and make the important
decisions during a flight, as it has for the past 15 years. It will retain
ultimate responsibility for safety and hire the astronauts, and it will still
own the four shuttles.

    But it will ease itself out of the routine, day-to-day work, such as
preparing the shuttles, training the astronauts and operating Mission
Control. Those duties will belong to United Space Alliance.

    The contract, signed late last week but announced Monday, designates
United Space Alliance as the single prime contractor for shuttle operations.
It includes two two-year extension options that could bring the contract's
total estimated value to $12 billion over 10 years.

    USA was formed in August 1995 and chosen by NASA as the single prime
contractor three months later.

    By compressing many contracts into one - this first phase consolidates 12
previous contracts - NASA hopes to improve shuttle safety, continue to fly
shuttles seven or eight times a year, and reduce costs in the $3
billion-a-year shuttle program.

    Because Rockwell and Lockheed Martin already handled most of the shuttle
work, the transition, while historic, won't make much immediate difference.

    USA officials expect to save at least $400 million in shuttle costs over
the six-year life of the contract, probably much more.

    Under the agreement, USA will be penalized for failing to meet safety and
mission objectives. The better the company does, the more it will earn and
the more taxpayers will save.

    ''We are telling the contractor we're going to give you 35 cents of every
dollar that you save us,'' Goldin said. ''May they get very rich because the
taxpayer will get very rich, because we get back 65 cents.''

    Some NASA employees question whether USA can do the job as promised,
especially with construction of an international space station just a year
off. They also fear reduced government oversight could lead to another
Challenger-type disaster and that the changeover itself could be a
distraction that might lead to deadly mistakes.

    Another misplaced wrench, for example, was found in shuttle Atlantis,
which returned from space Thursday. The first wrench was left in the booster
rocket; this one was in the engine compartment.

    ''It's obviously a lack of focus,'' said NASA's director of shuttle
operations Bob Sieck. ''Now what causes that? Is it the transition? Maybe
something else?''

    Less NASA involvement also means fewer NASA jobs, a money-saving goal of
the Clinton administration that has caused morale to plummet at the Kennedy
Space Center.

    Already, thousands of shuttle jobs have been cut. USA officials promise
no major layoffs, at least in the next few years.

    USA employs about 9,500 people nationwide. Altogether, about 23,000
contracted employees work on the shuttle program, in addition to about 2,600
NASA workers.

    ''If anyone has a concern we'll stop the process and evaluate- whether we
ought to move on,'' Goldin said.
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