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Where do you get this idea that there was a shortage of engineering? I don't remember the US government imposing a draft on engineers and forcing them into labor at NASA. Get real dude.
"The NASA bet on Apollo and Space Shuttle was rather akin to the Japanese bet on super computers."
Opinion. Many would argue otherwise. Youre just providing an example of the better business model winning. Has nothing to do with government vs private business.
Why didn't other international competition step up and build these technologies you claim NASA hampered? You claim there was a market.
Why didn't the NASA model follow your computer model (aka no better foreign tech emerged)? Maybe because your wrong and there wasn't a large market for space technology back in the 1950s.
Again, there is no proof anyone in the private sector was willing to step up and fill the roll of NASA. NASA didn't face competition because private industry wasn't interested in space research at the time.
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