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0 pointsmunk-a5y ago0 comments

SpaceX wouldn't exist without NASA sinking a lot of money into very risky R&D and training up a whole fleet of engineers capable of doing the work that SpaceX does. The public sector can be insanely bloated and slow - that's quite true - but it's necessary and contributes a lot to society that the private sector would never deliver.

We need balance in all things.

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megaman8215y ago

The Government should do things it is uniquely suited to do. Like risky, multi-decade R&D that launched the first satellites and delivered men to the moon. Once these feats become more common-place, let private industry take over and put the cost-savings into new R&D.

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