[FPSPACE] Study backs COTS[Scanned by MAIL]

[David Anderman]

Dr. Matula:

There is little doubt that individual companies engage in strategic 
planning for the future of their enterprise; this is a vastly 
different issue than planning related to the future of an industry, 
or, as you suggest, planning *which* industry should be supported by us.

I cannot offer any insight as to which industries in space or which 
companies will succeed - as opposed to your offerings here. Perhaps 
you have special knowledge of planned capitalism that I do not possess.

DWA

PS: I believe that we are now wildly off track, and we could continue 
this discussion beyond the point during which people will be paying 
money for tickets for rides into space. All I can say concerning 
suborbital space tourism is:

If we are lucky, some companies will sell tickets and transport 
people into space. Some of those companies will fail. We are lucky, 
at least one will survive and maybe make a profit.



At 09:24 AM 2/13/2007, Matula, Thomas L. wrote:
>David,
>
>Funny thing, There is a discipline invented by American Capitalists 
>named marketing which does just that, plan for success in new 
>markets. I know most folks confuse marketing with promotion, which 
>is just the tip of the iceberg that folks outside of marketing see. 
>Combined with the recent advances in the science of economics, ones 
>which have integrated complexity theory and systems evolution and 
>capitalism is not as mysterious as you make it out to be.