lol Sorry to hear you have a size/power complex.
How many billions did the SLS cost already? lol
The SLS is going to MAKE America money. Every single NASA project from Voyager to the moon landing turned a PROFIT.
For every single dollar we give NASA, NASA returns it to our economy in the form of 40 dollars. Source: https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/newspace3.html#:~:text=Estimates%20of%20the%20return%20on,spent%20on%20space%20development%20today.
SpaceX saves NASA money which means less economic return.
Sometimes thats a good thing, like when you need to launch to the ISS every single month with experiments and supplies which are more expensive than the rocket launching them. In such a case SpaceX makes logical sense.
But when you need to lift a city worth of supplies to the moon you can forget about private space contractors unless they are the ones designing containers or landing craft.
lol Thanks for the good laugh.
I mean it's just reality.
I will be there in reality when they launch it.
I'll stop at Dixie Crossroads and think of you when biting into locally sourced Rock Shrimp
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