• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Because Republicans gutted NASA for decades. They absolutely loathed that it was a generally beloved program by everyone. And for every dollar of funding saw multiple times that in the value it created. What SpaceX did wasn’t something that NASA had never thought of. They just never had the funding to really pursue it. And especially in the wasteful manner Elon musk has.

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      11 months ago

      What did spaceX do, exactly?

      We’ve had re-usable spacecraft rated for human passengers since the Space Shuttle.