Howard Bloom on the Space Show

I clicked on the mp3 download in order to listen to the show because it had something about the SLS.

What distresses me is that the political conflict between Newspace and the "Old Space" (in lieu of a better term) is hampering progress,  Newspace wouldn't take up much room in the budget, but isn't being fully funded because Old Space fears it.

This is what I am getting at with the Basic Concept of Solutions v. Conflict.  There is room in space for both new and the old, and there doesn't have to be a conflict, yet there are those out there who are feeding it.  For example, the Newspace people keep saying that the SLS is a rocket to nowhere.  As I have written, the best use of the SLS is to build infrastructure as opposed to going places.  The SLS doesn't have to go anywhere in order to be useful.  It can lift heavy equipment and objects that small rockets can't.  It can build out the infrastructure that Newspace can utilize.  They can be synergistic, but instead, they are fighting each other.

When all the oars a paddling in the same direction, you can get somewhere.  With such  conflict as this, there cannot be such a scenario, but rather using the paddles to whack each other upside the head.  That has to stop.