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It’s nice when you have the backing of a super power nation and their blank check to do it vs having shareholders.

• aik 3y ago
  Amazing the effect competency has when trying to win a blank check away from others.
• deadbeeves 3y ago
  Doesn't SpaceX receive plenty of money from the US?
  • spurgu 3y ago
    They get money for launching stuff into space, i.e. it's a business.
  • ralfd 3y ago
    It depends on the definition of plenty. At the peak in 1965 NASA/Apollo funding was 5% of government budget. That would be hundreds of billions today.