What happens if NASA gets privatized?

we will have a hotel to the Moon.....

They would not have the money they do now and it would take a while to round up investors. But, it would allow for more diversity and smoother funtion. What I can see happening however is private industries over taking the work that NASA does. We saw a glimps of this with "spaceship one", which won the x prize a few years ago. They deomnstrated that it doesn't take a huge beurocrocy and federal dollars and millions of man hours to put a man in space. I think this is the kind of thing we are going to see in the next 10 years.

Privatizing it (with limited government regulation) would probably mean that man will return to the moon in a few years (as opposed to the decades proposed by Bush). It would also mean that we would have manned exploration of the rest of the solar system in a matter of a decade or so. Few government programs have gained us more technological advances than the space program. However, almost all of them stem from the days when the US was pushing beyond simple experiments and satelite maintenance. Once NASA lost it's vision, it also lost it's drive for innovation. Bring on the fresh ideas and innovations of the private sector!

Every time I look at the moon, I'm reminded of why we need NASA. Every time I see a dinosaur movie, I'm reminded why we need NASA. I'm not really interested in exploring planets in our solar system. I am concerned with meteors, however. If all NASA does is monitor objects in space to make sure that nothing comes crashing into us unexpectedly, I don't mind the fact that they get a lot of taxpayers' money. But for that particular task, I don't suppose it rightly matters if they're private or government-funded. I just want man to use all his technology to see if we can prevent a disaster. There are a lot of good theories out there, proposed by some brilliant minds, on how to avoid an earth-killing impact. I don't know if they would actually work, but I do know this: we will eventually be faced with problems from space that threaten our existence. Our world is NEVER frozen in time. Our continents are still drifting. Our supervolcanoes are still waiting to erupt. Our climate is still getting hotter and colder (with or without mankind's interference). And we're just here--as an accident or on purpose--in this brief moment with the illusion that our current setup is the way of the world. It would be nice to have a little bit of insurance against catastrophe. I think NASA can provide that as far as a meteor, coment or maybe even a solar flare (not the Nicholas Cage kind! lol) goes.

I don't know about that. i doubt NASA will get privatized, it's impossible for me because they will loose a lot of money and eventually ran out of business. and besides, they have a lot of secrets there that the Government or the Military can't afford to let loose NASA. secrets like, did they land on the moon or did they found other life forms there.

NASA is one of the more successful government programs. By successful, I mean the benefits mankind has received from space exploration, including near Earth. This NASA weblink give some indication as to the money's worth: http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home.html If NASA was privatized, maybe we'd all find out what the mysterious vortex on Saturn is.

I think if NASA get privatized then NASA should concentrate on the exploration of Space, and turn over all other operations to the private sector Space companies. This, I believe, would make better use of their budget, and allow us to find new resources. So what if a few make some money out of launching satellites or mining the Moon or Mars. I think that if the exploration of Mars was left to the private sector, we’d be there by now.As long as NASA dominates civilian space efforts, little progress will be made toward inexpensive manned space travel. The lesson of Mr. Glenn's second flight is that space enthusiasts ignore economics at their peril.