• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Nah, SpaceX does good work for NASA. Instead nationalize Musk’s shares.

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      8 months ago

      Like? So far they’ve just wasted billions of dollars and “rapidly disassembled” rockets using tax payer dollars

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        8 months ago

        I know that development costs are mind boggling in scale, we’re looking at around $5B dollars so far on Starship, (and the government only paid for part of that).

        But let’s put that into perspective, it was around $11B NASA spent on developing SLS, and SLS costs $2B per launch. So we’re still within comparable costs for development of a heavy lift vehicle.