any goodwill SpaceX has will disappear as they become the ones delaying the return to the moon.
There's a very small number of people in our government who seem terrified of China beating the US back to the moon, purely from a PR standpoint (and they're all Biden's age). This new moon landing is as likely to work by 2028 as the Hyperloop, and it's all because they can't detach parasites like Musk from the project.
The space program doesn't exist to explore space, it exists to make money for the richest lizard-men on earth, and that's why whether it succeeds or not is meaningless.
There's a very small number of people in our government who seem terrified of China beating the US back to the moon, purely from a PR standpoint (and they're all Biden's age). This new moon landing is as likely to work by 2028 as the Hyperloop, and it's all because they can't detach parasites like Musk from the project.
The space program doesn't exist to explore space, it exists to make money for the richest lizard-men on earth, and that's why whether it succeeds or not is meaningless.