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> NOBODY told Musk to make reusable rockets. Nobody from government came over and said "Do this for us because we want to save money". That's exactly what they

• robomartin 6y ago
  That is some fantastically magical creative reading of articles that have nothing to do with what I said. No. No. No. The US government did not go to SpaceX and say: Design and build reusable rockets. They couldn't even imagine landing rockets. The best we got from a government effort was the Space Shuttle. Impressive as it was, it imploded under its own cost structure. Source: I worked in that industry for a number of years. It was my job to be aware of these things. Beyond that. Government contracts are public. Go find a contract where any government agency requests that any company, SpaceX or otherwise, develop a self-landing reusable rocket. You can't. How about we don't play this game of negating Musk credit for the incredibly audacious innovations he has championed and the risk and effort it took for thousands of people to make such amazing things happen. Our politicians can barely use email and struggle to understand how Facebook works. Does anyone really think they are equivalent to determined, old and innovative entrepreneurs? No f-ing way.