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>>15704945
Not really supposed to be bait, more of a shitpost lol. My reasoning was based on how he is often attributed to Saturn V dying, shuttle turning retarded halfway through the design process, and about 50 years of setbacks that eventually lead do SpaceX succeeding as it is now. Nothing like starship could have come form the gooberment. It needed to be private. So you could (arguably, I’ll admit) say that nixon inadvertently set up back but also set us up for success
Btw shoutout to pete conrad who saw the writing on the wall and believed commercial space was the future before anyone else was even thinking about it