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People shouldn't be shocked that employees of the US government can deliver things ahead of schedule and under budget. The problems are that anyone gave Musk/d
by dfxm12 1mo ago
People shouldn't be shocked that employees of the US government can deliver things ahead of schedule and under budget.
The problems are that anyone gave Musk/doge the time of day and that we're too used to the president giving no bid contacts to incompetent donors.
- jryle70 1mo ago> the president giving no bid contacts to incompetent donors Are you talking about SLS? Oh maybe you'd say that is "Senate Launch System", it's complicated, job program, 50 states sharing, and so on?
- jeltz 1mo agoAt least it works unlike Starship. But yes both SLS and Starship are handouts to political donors.
- inemesitaffia 1mo agoBut the Starship contracts were awarded by Biden. And unlike SLS weren't no-bid
- ChocolateGod 1mo agoMusks company provides not only the most cost effective but also the most reliable access to space that is currently unparalleled by any other company. We should thank the government for spending tax money efficiently. You should blame the legacy aerospace companies whom purposely inflate contracts and take forever to do things for there being a lack of competition, not Musk.
- Morromist 1mo agoAs I see it Musk is lobbying the goverment to give him money to do useless stuff & expensive in space like land on the moon again - basically redirecting funds away from useful stuff like the James Webb Telescope for publicity stunts. Not any different from the legacy aerospace companies, who also lobbied like crazy, except on a bigger, dumber scale.
- ChocolateGod 1mo agoStarship is mostly funded by Starlink. Yes, Musk is a crappy character, but that's not a reason to make things up. This isn't Reddit.
- Morromist 1mo agoStarship isn't actually operational. I'll let you look at their plans for it and you can tell me if they involve doing things the goverment would pay for like landing on the moon and building space stations or not.
- inemesitaffia 1mo ago>redirecting funds away from useful stuff like the James Webb Telescope for publicity stunts The point is this isn't happening. Almost everything you're complaining about happened under Biden, who Musk wasn't on good terms with. SpaceX is the cheapest provider of the services it offers, and the government is a large customer but has been less than half of revenue since before 2024. If the government wants to build a space station (Vast, Axiom, Voyager) or land something(Firefly, Intuitive Machines) or someone on the moon(SpaceX, Blue Origin) , it will find contractors that can do all or part. The contractors here are BAE Space & Mission Systems (fka Ball Aerospace), L3Harris, and Teledyne. i.e the "NASA" money always ends up at some corp. And complaining about SpaceX stealing money is ignorance. It's worth noting that the primary contractor for the ISS is Boeing, but Leidos and KBR are involved.
- pmdr 1mo agoMusk used to be reddit's darling. People's newfound hate for him seem to cloud their judgment and make them forget what made Musk their darling in the first place.
- dotancohen 1mo agoThen you see it wrong. Plans for returning humans to the surface of the moon have been being developed for longer than you've known Musk's name. The Artemis program was developed out of the Constellation program, which was initiated sometime around 2005 or 6.