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Weird way of looking at it. Was Roscosmos “America’s space program” when they were selling the rides?
by justin66 2y ago
Weird way of looking at it. Was Roscosmos “America’s space program” when they were selling the rides?
- ls612 2y agoCurrently SpaceX makes up 90% of global launch mass in the past year. It may as well be the western world’s space program pretty soon, with China and Russia only launching their own military payloads.
- justin66 2y agoWhat I was really driving at was that some are using the wrong definition of "space program." It's a good thing that space transportation is becoming a reliable service or utility, but that's something quite different than being the space program. If we came to think of launch as a very large part of what constitutes a space program, that's only because we allowed the costs of launch to become entirely too high, such that it dominated budgets.
- dylan604 2y agoNo. They were just the rescue (to stay on theme) for America's space program.