Talk:NewSpace

Source of Initial Material

The initial material in this articles was not sourced from Wikipedia. Robert Winmill 20:55, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

Comments on removals

"NewSpace does not have a formal, or specific definition." -- Sure it does, you just gave it!  :-) That's a lot clearer than many other concepts.

I removed "meme" because I absolutely hate the word, which suggests all sorts of very controversial ideas about how ideas are propagated.

"NewSpace is a cultural idea." Not necessary to state. Any name for a movement can be said to describe "a cultural idea."

The article said, "To be considered NewSpace an effort should have at least two of following characteristics"--well, who decided that? Was it standardized somewhere somehow? I doubt it. Any such specific definition enshrines some specific person's specific ideas about what the term means as something we all will mean.

I wonder whether "NewSpace" itself is essentially a sort of industry marketing term, however. I wonder if the bulk of the information about private spaceflight should live at something less apt to hype--such as private spaceflight.

--Larry Sanger 10:32, 23 April 2007 (CDT)