We should nationalize SpaceX, make them part of NASA, and go back to just building our own goddamn rockets.
If these people can reuse a rocket three dozen times, landing it on a barge in the middle of the ocean, while trying to placate the world's richest toddler, imagine what they could do with an actual budget, part of an actual agency with a mission to explore space instead of make musk more money.
exactly. give people the resources to flourish and they will. But the US state will probably collapse before doing any of that (and that's probably a good thing for the rest of the world if it does)
We should nationalize SpaceX, make them part of NASA, and go back to just building our own goddamn rockets.
If these people can reuse a rocket three dozen times, landing it on a barge in the middle of the ocean, while trying to placate the world's richest toddler, imagine what they could do with an actual budget, part of an actual agency with a mission to explore space instead of make musk more money.
NASA has always used contractors for building rockets BTW.
EDIT: mostly
Well said!