• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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      SpaceX and Starlink basically have no competition, and if they did, said competitor would also need to be heavily subsidized.

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        These last few years they’ve had very little successes, but the point is it should stay competitive and not be automatically handed to these doofuses. Even the USSR maintained a competitive rocketry sector.

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      SpaceX has loads of capable engineers. If NASA gets a massive budget increase, they need to draw from that pool of talent.

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      NASA hasn’t take the slightest risk since Challenger. They wouldn’t have accomplished 1/20th of the launch capability SpaceX has developed in the last 5 years.

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          It’s the specification process that’s the thing, nobody there would have gone out on a limb the way SpaceX has with their recovery systems. Look where they are on a shuttle replacement: the Apollo capsule with more room.