Kennedy Space Center

[xuth]

On reading the (fairly expensive) ticket to get into the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, I noticed the statement: "KSC Visitor Complex is entirely supported by its visitors. No tax dollars are used to fund the facilities, staff or operations

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[poltr1]

FWIW, Delaware North runs a lot of stadium concessions across the country. They gave a boatload of money to my alma mater and their management building is named after their founder, Jeremy Jacobs.

[xuth]

Yes, but this is a museum, with artifacts created/provided by US taxpayer funded projects, not a concession stand.

[poltr1]

Then the US outsourced the upkeep of this museum and its artifacts to a private company. Put it out for bids, and award it to (presumably) the lowest bidder. Welcome to the world of smaller government, like it or not.

[c1]

I don't know which is worse -- having an outside vendor provide a service at no cost to the taxpayers, while charging a fairly expensive entrance fee to visitors, or having the government decide how much of NASA's already thin-to-the-point-of-transparency slice of the pie goes to funding the museum.
Who owns the actual artifacts?

[eub]

Perhaps the only thing worse would be if the private company demanded this expensive ticket price and *did* also get tax dollars.