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I'm not so sure. In terms of dollars (compared to national space programs) they were broke from the beginning. This constraint has forced them to think about th

I'm not so sure. In terms of dollars (compared to national space programs) they were broke from the beginning. This constraint has forced them to think about the problem in a different way and seek efficiencies that probably don't occur to the larger programs. While on a personal level, the money Musk had was FU money, on a company level, SpaceX has been operating out of the poor house.

jacquesm 16y ago
Amichail was talking about people, I meant SpaceX as an example of how the person Elon Musk outdid himself post FUM by founding SpaceX.
JabavuAdams 16y ago
Not really. They went big by going orbital -- their expenditure is comparable to dinospace budgets. There are companies doing amazing things with 1 / 10th the budget.