[net.space] Lets hear it for Private Enterprise

karn@mouton.UUCP (05/31/84)

I read an AP article last night saying that TCI (Transpace Carriers, Inc,
the company that just bought the Delta marketing rights from NASA) has
written President Reagan asking him to prohibit ESA from marketing the
Ariane launcher in the USA because of its "unfair competition" due to
government subsidies.

Funny they didn't make this a condition of their buying the Delta.
If this crybaby attitude is to be the standard way that "private enterprise"
promotes its interests in space, then we're in a lot of trouble.

Phil