Comments on: Rocketplane’s uncertain future http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/10/24/rocketplanes-uncertain-future/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: james lee http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/10/24/rocketplanes-uncertain-future/comment-page-1/#comment-204366 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:55:29 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/10/24/rocketplanes-uncertain-future/#comment-204366 to make this work half the money has to come from a US partner
and it says something that RpK never even had a bite
from a US Finance entity.

Subprime mortgages were more attractive then a George French company

]]> By: Sam Dinkin http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/10/24/rocketplanes-uncertain-future/comment-page-1/#comment-203828 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:24:17 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/10/24/rocketplanes-uncertain-future/#comment-203828 Can you shed some light on the nature of the limitation on international investment in COTS? It seems to me that if control and ownership rests with the US (e.g., 51% of equity and 51% of voting rights), then the fact that new money is coming from an international source seems like a bad policy. If another country wants to help us make COTS work, that seems like a nice bargain.

That said, there ought to be a way for any international money source to create a US corporation. That corporation could pay US taxes and even if it is under foreign control, again it’s bad policy to turn down help from foreign capital sources. The US is only 20% of world GDP any more.

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