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Why isn’t the US Government pumping money into Starship? If I was Elon I’d feel betrayed, man. The US will have three operational superheavy launch vehicles in the next two years and two of them are from SpaceX. I don’t know why NASA isn’t at least giving them a yearly stipend of $1 Billion. Shit sucks man.

Fun fact. Superheavy BN1 will catch up to Artemis 1’s Core in terms of readiness in the next few weeks. It’s amazing.

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I’m a zoomer (‘02) and I fell for the “Space is Hard” meme from an early age. I remember hating SpaceX BECAUSE they were private because I had this weird belief that only governments should go to space. I remember hating the Falcon 9 because I thought it was ugly.

I started looking into SpaceX in 2015 and reading a bunch of speculation about their “MCT” rocket (this was before the ITS presentation in 2016). I saw videos of the Falcon 9 crashing into the drone ship before and I thought nothing of it.

Anyhow I saw the OG2 landing and thought nothing of it. I followed the SES-9 launch because I’d never seen a rocket webcast live before and I was actually super engaged in it. The real turning point was watching CRS-8 land on the droneship, which affected me on a spiritual level. From then on, I watched the next twenty or so launches live no matter how late at night they were.