Irony
Read this again:
One can hate things done by someone and not hate the person. How’s that?
Gaslighting.
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Evidence?
There are plenty of us, myself included who criticize Musk or the actions of his companies. Certainly someone can mistakenly construe that as that I hate Elon Musk. You’d be wrong, I don’t hate him, actually I don’t necessarily like him either, I’ve never met the guy. However, you can believe what you want.
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Dang, SpaceX does it again.
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Here’s something interesting, SpaceX revenue will exceed NASAs budget for next year, and before the haters chime in to try and refute, NASAs contract was just 1 billion of the 15 billion in revenue.
From the article.
SpaceX is a private company, so it does not share its financial results, such as revenue and profit. This means that details about the space agency’s financial performance are not easily accessible to the public.
Elon can make all the “claims” he wants but it’s hard to prove.
Claims or not, can say this is huge indictment on American society and how we’ve decided to be a “stupid country”?. Instead of funding space, science, innovation, education, etc. Which is what happened when we had a government full of ex-soldiers, more engineers, etc. We’re focused on outdated ways, status quos, etc.
NASA should be one of our better funded agencies period. We want to outsource low orbit stuff to SpaceX? Cool, they better be onto bigger and better. Either for the good of the planet or the next big thing in space exploration.
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Always be skeptical of the source; will the proposed 25% cut to NASA stick ?
SpaceX is projected to generate around $15.5 billion in revenue in 2025, with its commercial space revenue predicted to exceed NASA’s total budget next year, the company’s founder Elon Musk has announced.
NASA budget
Nominal Dollars
(Millions) % of Fed Budget[5][6] 2024 Constant Dollars
(Millions)
| 2020 | 22,629[18] | 0.48% | 27,409 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23,271[19] | 0.49% | 27,003 |
| 2022 | 24,041 | 0.50% | 25,832 |
| 2023 | 25,384 | 0.52% | 26,196 |
| 2024 | 24,875 | 0.50% | 24,875 |
The proposed NASA budget for [fiscal year 2026](is $18.8 billion, a 25% cut from the previous year, representing the smallest budget since 1961 when adjusted for inflation. This proposal aims to significantly reduce funding for science missions and the agency’s workforce while prioritizing human exploration of the Moon and Mars through commercial partnerships. However, Congress is moving to reject these deep cuts, with the House subcommittee voting to advance legislation that would keep the overall budget closer to the prior year’s funding level.
Especially if don’t agree with it.
Saw an article today stating that Space X has $15.5 Billion of revenue with $1 Billion from NASA.
Clearly the Company is not dependent on our Federal Government for survival and success.
I give you numbers and facts.
You respond, in summary form, “you guys just hate Musk ! Blah blah blah, insult,
blah blah blah, insult”
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So pointing out you don’t like Musk is an insult. Ok bro.
No.
Constantly accusing people of being brainwashed by their media lords,
having skewed viewpoints, not thinking for themselves, accusing people of getting personal, are your typical go to insults you put in almost every poster you respond to. It just gets old.
And I don’t love or hate Musk ( but there again you are assigning other people feelings ). Musk is kinda fun and entertaining to observe. Some big accomplishments and some big failures. And the over the top stuff he puts out
almost daily is kinda funny.
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SpaceX completes test
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Progress is always a good thing. Way to go SpaceX.
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Can’t wait for what the negative Nellie’s make of this.
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Can’t wait till we get back to the moon
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NASA says later this decade. It’s not easy, if it was, another country would have done it. But newcomer SpaceX is way ahead of Boeing at this point.
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Dragon is crew certified by NASA.
Orion is crew certified by NASA.
Starship is not yet crew certified by NASA
Mr Musk wants Starship to be certified for human travel as early as next year, and has also suggested it will start un-crewed flights to Mars in the next 12 months.