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To a lot of the comments going with some variation of "His business aren't that successful and/or he is propped up by government contracts" I would say that it
by pseudonym01 11y ago
To a lot of the comments going with some variation of "His business aren't that successful and/or he is propped up by government contracts" I would say that it is really easy to look back in hindsight and say Tesla/SpaceX aren't a big deal but I think Tesla did for the electric car what the iPhone did for the smartphone. Also maybe it is just PR but I really see many other private companies launching/developing rockets.
As the public face of these companies that are so awesomely nerdy Elon Musk gets the public credit for their success just like he will take the blame for their possible failures.
- ForHackernews 11y ago> Also maybe it is just PR but I really see many other private companies launching/developing rockets. It's largely PR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_co...
- pseudonym01 11y agoAh, well alright then. Guess he deserves some kudos for being good at PR :P
- tdy721 11y agoI don't think it's just good PR. The way SpaceX has gone about building rockets is different. They want to land and reuse the rockets, nobody else was doing that. I think that helped excite a lot of people (myself included). You get a bunch of nerds excited about something and the PR will follow organic style.