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- ravedave5 2y agoI bet Elon tweeting AI generated videos of the VPOTUS in soviet garb helped a ton here.
- sjm-lbm 2y agoI do think we need to make the US a place where builders can build, but I disagree with this justification pretty strongly. This isn't a public organization working for the public good, it's a private company doing R&D to create a spacecraft that they will own and control. We're also, at least in the legal sense, not at war.
- perihelions 2y agoIt's a defense contractor with a track record of delivering things to USGov no one else is capable of (Starlink/Starshield). They're not a public service—but they do work for the US.
- erupt7893 2y agoSpaceX is private, however this whole Starship program has NASA (public organization) funding parts of Starship's development for lunar exploration, as part of the Artemis program
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- inglor_cz 2y agoPrivate companies can have strategic value, too. The capabilities of SpaceX is what puts the entire US on the top of the current space technology race. Imagine having to beg the Russians to get the two stranded astronauts back to Earth.
- grues-dinner 2y ago> We're at war Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
- kilroy123 2y agoWhat War exactly?
- slenk 2y agoSpaceX is not part of our national security. They are one launch platform. They should be punished, they keep blowing up spaceships. Know what didn't blow up on it's first trip to space? The Saturn V rocket, from the 60s!
- norir 2y agoFor me, it is a national security risk to allow an unelected, largely unaccountable, private individual to have this much control over crucial areas of national interest.