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> Even accepting the notion that a small NASA pay-for-performance program = "subsidy" = Falcon 1 (with Musk throwing his entire $100 million fortune into starting a cockamamie r…
by ceejayoz · Sep 25, 2026
>Falcon 1 got them the subsidies. It was the most unsubsidized part of SpaceX! mfw >I asserted Starlink has been subsidized, and stand by that claim. I'd thought we'd settled th…
by TMWNN · Sep 25, 2026
Prima: NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
by rbanffy · Sep 25, 2026 · 3 points
No, I'm saying that when the Post puts out an article shouting about "$38 billion" going to Musk, many, many people are going to take away from that that "Musk received $38 bill…
by TMWNN · Sep 25, 2026
> By that logic, every US university with federal funding is being subsidized à la Musk. That is correct. > Every small business that gets an SBA loan—the type of low-interest l…
by ceejayoz · Sep 25, 2026
> But "we'll pay you to develop this satellite launcher, and this cargo capsule, and this crew capsule, with the explicit goal of kickstarting a new launch provider" is. "$38 bi…
by TMWNN · Sep 25, 2026
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as research in aeronautics and space. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., NASA operates ten field centers across the US and is organized into three mission directorates: Human Spaceflight, Research and Technology, and Science. Established in 1958 amid the Space Race, NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the US space program a distinct civilian orientation focused on peaceful applications. Since then, it has led most American spaceflight programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the Apollo program, Skylab, the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station (ISS), and the ongoing multinational Artemis program. Read more on Wikipedia