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SpaceX Space Station

• einpoklum 3y ago
  > then rely on private enterprise to provide a suitable commercial alternative. Read: To provide exorbitant profits to private defense/aerospace corporations, as if all of the war profiteering on Afghanistan and now Ukraine, and the enormous payday they got during covid, wasn't enough.
  • bryanlarsen 3y ago
    The "public" ISS gave over $100B to Boeing et al.
    • einpoklum 3y ago
      (sighs and hangs head down.)
  • kcplate 3y ago
    As opposed to the alternative…which is?
  • the_third_wave 3y ago
    Compare the price tags for SpaceX missions to those for the latest "government-issue" launching system [1] and your thesis is not just punctured but nullified and voided. [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sls-costs-are-unsustainable/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-gener...