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SpaceX is for profit, so it’s goals need to be profitable monetarily. NASA is government funded so it can focus on important things that may not be profitable m
by ksd482 5y ago
SpaceX is for profit, so it’s goals need to be profitable monetarily. NASA is government funded so it can focus on important things that may not be profitable monetarily.
- zpeti 5y agoHow is that working out in terms of actual dollars spent? Who’s more efficient at spending $1 including profit in that? Your theory doesn’t hold up to actual numbers
- AYBABTME 5y agoI read recently a pretty good take on this. It goes something like, in order of most risky to least risky: - Government funding is for super high risk, high reward long shots that may never work or prove useful. - Then, VC funding when it's high risk, but within a few years horizon of working or proving useful. - Last, public funding for stuff that's obviously going to work. NASA is in the business of de-risking the edge. Then VC-backed stuff like SpaceX/Rocket Lab/Relativity Space can come and do the still-risky-but-still-less-risky bets. Public companies like Boeing/Lockheed Martin can be in the business of launching rockets as is well known and done for decades now.
- 8note 5y agoSurely VCs aren't putting continuous money into space, and it's government contracts paying most of the way. Scale of cost is a bit high for VC