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They (SpaceX at least) are not 100% funded by the government.

• avar 10y ago
  And to the extent that SpaceX isn't funded by the government they have no plans to put people into orbit as a goal in itself, only as a staging area for launching to Mars. So how is any of this a counterargument to stickfigure's "manned orbit is motivated by prestige, not rational economic behavior"?
  • greglindahl 10y ago
    SpaceX has said that they expect a space tourism market to develop. That sounds like rational economic behavior, even if the tourists are doing it for the prestige.
• krschultz 10y ago
  That wasn't the argument.