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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

all taxpayer money anyway

Yes but with very little to show for it. If the government just treated all undelivered orders as debt, it would end up deep in the red.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

What do you mean little to show for it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Never lived up to the hype. Take almost as much effort to get ready for another flight as building another one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I'm no Musk apologist, but this statement is nowhere close to being true.

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9-economics