you're the one who brought up nasa by implication. to the extent starship development is funded through government contracts (it really isn't, it's mostly funded through starlink and other forms of reinvestment) they're providing a better service than the competition simultaneously at a lower price. if he weren't there nasa would just be dumping that money into ula etc for worse results and way fewer launches per dollar. besides what does that have to do with self landing reusable rocket tech happening under musk's watch? why didn't bezos do it, or boeing, or locksneed, or virgin, or bruno at ula after the forced merger after that nasty espionage business? why did musk happen to get all the good engineers even after getting into the game so much later?
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