VBI Private CP 2k11 Private CP Private CP .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 Private CP 1NC ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 Private CP 1NC ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 Privatized Space Now ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Privatized Space Cheaper/More Efficient .............................................................................................................. 5 Privatized Space Cheaper/Solves Econ ................................................................................................................ 6 Privatized Space Cheaper Solves Econ ................................................................................................................ 7 Solvency—Incentives ............................................................................................................................................. 8 Solvency—Incentives ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Solvency—Incentives ........................................................................................................................................... 10 Solvency—Incentives/Prizes ................................................................................................................................ 11 Solvency—Prizes ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Solvency—Prizes ................................................................................................................................................. 13 Solvency—Prizes ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Solvency—Asteroid Mining .................................................................................................................................. 15 Solvency—Asteroid Mining .................................................................................................................................. 16 Solvency—Generic Space ................................................................................................................................... 17 Solvency—Generic Space ................................................................................................................................... 18 Solvency—Mars ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Solvency—Moon .................................................................................................................................................. 20 Solvency—Military Communications .................................................................................................................... 21 Solvency—NASA ................................................................................................................................................. 22 Solvency—Planetary Defense ............................................................................................................................. 23 Solvency—SETI ................................................................................................................................................... 24 Solvency—Shuttle Gap ........................................................................................................................................ 25 Solvency—Space Tourism ................................................................................................................................... 26 Solvency—Space Plane ....................................................................................................................................... 27 Solvency—Space Shuttle ..................................................................................................................................... 28 Solvency—Space Solar ....................................................................................................................................... 29 Solvency—Space Solar ....................................................................................................................................... 30 Solvency—Space Tourism ................................................................................................................................... 31 Spending—Doesn’t Link to Spending .................................................................................................................. 32 Politics—Incentives/Prizes Unpopular ................................................................................................................. 33 Politics—Privatize Unpopular ............................................................................................................................... 34 AT: No Laws/Definitions/Framework for Private Space ....................................................................................... 35 AT: Legal Restrictions Prevent the CP ................................................................................................................. 36 AT: Government Key to Safety ............................................................................................................................ 37 AT: Permutation ................................................................................................................................................... 38 AT: NASA Key to Future Development ................................................................................................................ 39 AT: Private Space Can’t Get Started ................................................................................................................... 40 AT: Prizes Don’t Matter ........................................................................................................................................ 41 Aff—Government Better ....................................................................................................................................... 42 Aff—NASA Good .................................................................................................................................................. 43 Aff—Conspiracy Theory Links .............................................................................................................................. 44 Aff—Privatizationà Militarization ......................................................................................................................... 45 Aff—Private Spaceà Accidents ........................................................................................................................... 46 Aff—Permutation .................................................................................................................................................. 47 Aff—Privatization Fails ......................................................................................................................................... 48 Aff—Privatization Kills Heg .................................................................................................................................. 49 Page 1 of 49 VBI Private CP 2k11 Private CP 1NC Text: The United States Federal Government Should Provide Prizes and Tax Incentives to Encourage Private Corporations to [Affirmative Plan Area]. Government Run Space Programs are Subject to Nonsensical Bureaucratic Mistakes and Political Pressures That Fail the Missions of the Program Robert Garmong, Ph.D, writer for the Ayn Rand Institute, “Privatize Space Exploration,” Intellectual Conservative, July 22nd, 2005 (http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2005/07/22/privatize-space-exploration/) There is a contradiction at the heart of the space program: space exploration, as the grandest of man's technological advancements, requires the kind of bold innovation possible only to minds left free to pursue the best of their creative thinking and judgment. Yet, by funding the space program through taxation, we necessarily place it at the mercy of bureaucratic whim. The results are written all over the past twenty years of NASA's history: the space program is a political animal, marked by shifting, inconsistent, and ill-defined goals. The space shuttle was built and maintained to please clashing special interest groups, not to do a clearly defined job for which there was an economic and technical need. The shuttle was to launch satellites for the Department of Defense and private contractors -- which could be done more cheaply by lightweight, disposable rockets. It was to carry scientific experiments -- which could be done more efficiently by unmanned vehicles. But one "need" came before all technical issues: NASA's political need for showy manned vehicles. The result, as great a technical achievement as it is, was an over-sized, over-complicated, over-budget,