As a huge Rocket Lab fan, this is good news for them.
Republicans successfully pushed to privatize the US space program. Now they’re going to push nationalize and or heavily regulate it.
What a bunch of tools.
The problem is SpaceX has the best product around, and it’s not even close. Falcon 9 launches are so much cheaper than anything that ULA has offered that it’s not even funny. They weren’t even looking in to reusable boosters until SpaceX made it a standard practice in their system. For station cargo flights, Cygnus is an option, but it can’t bring anything back the way Cargo Dragon can. For manned missions, the only other option would be Boeing Starliner, and I don’t think anyone else is ready to call that operational.
Yes, SpaceX has a near monopoly at this point, but for once I don’t think it’s from any underhanded business practices, it’s just they were willing to innovate when the legacy space carriers were coasting along on government contracts. Once NASA, the DOD, the intelligence agencies deemed the Falcon as reliable, the only reasons ULA stayed in business was the government’s desire for a second launch provider for contingencies, and the occasion payload that was too big for Falcon.
That’s always been the tragedy for me personally. I absolutely loved the fuck out of SpaceX and what it was doing. It was the shining ray of hope for tech nerds like me hoping to work in a cool industry reminiscent of the 60s space race. And then Musk got on Twitter and got seriously weird and just never stopped.
All Musk’s companies need to ditch Musk. He’s doing them no good.
Not likely to happen given they’re private (except Tesla), and he owns big stakes in them.
After all the attacks Tesla got early on, he decided to keep his companies private, and that’s what led to the funding secured tweet, trying to get away from it all.
Edit: SpaceX for example he has majority voting rights. You’d have to remove him using the law somehow or have it be voluntary.
Musk has got to be nervous right now. It seems everyone is siding with trump. The maga cult is really dedicated to their lord and savior.
I will be very happy to see musks downfall. But I was definitely hoping for more of a fracture on both sides, with some split support for Musk. Would’ve been better for damaging the maga side too.
I wonder if Musk survives this. Certainly possible, as the public has a very short attention span. We’ll see. Here’s to hoping he sees nothing but failure from here on out.
Good thing there’s a decades old, federally-funded space agency—oh wait.
One that could successfully put humans on the moon and then safely return them to the Earth? Fifty years ago?! Sounds pretty sus…
Just nationalize SpaceX at this point for “national security reasons”
