What Spacex is doing is cool but at what cost? I strenuously object to the way they are getting funded at the expense of thousands of engineers with a proven record. Of course those engineers just tended to be conservative and from states which don’t support Obama.
Sure NASA has made mistakes, heck they still employ Hansen, but they’ve done and are doing some incredible awe inspiring things.
I understand that, but how much have they done that is commercialized?
Doing science, for the sake of science, is great in theory.