Let me paraphrase an excellent comment on Reddit from the other day, in response to one of the usual lies about how the only reason SpaceX is ahead of the rest

Let me paraphrase an excellent comment on Reddit from the other day, in response to one of the usual lies about how the only reason SpaceX is ahead of the rest of the world is that it got zillions from the US government: >If large amounts of funding is the only thing required to succeed, Blue Origin would now have a nuclear-powered spacecraft orbiting Pluto.