Posted on 04/21/2018 9:13:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Not a big fan of Musk in other ways. Big fan of what his rockets can do.
please....
Go SpaceX!
Why would anyone give any credence to such a foul worded sophmoric article.
Lets see who gets to Mars first, Musk or NASA.
Yea the article was ridiculous.
You mean F-ing Ridiculous.
You know something?
The guy is a visionary and a genius. I have ZERO problem giving him tax dollars over ANY government agency to try to do the same.....and probably at 1/10th the cost.
Wow— these clowns don’t know diddly about “apace.”
“Congress pumps pork money to NASA in omnibus budget”
March 22, 2018
Robert Zimmerman
“The omnibus budget that Congress plans to pass this week for 2018 gives NASA $20.7 billion, significantly more than requested and funding almost every pork project Congress could conceive of, including a second mobile launcher for SLS.”
The budget gives SLS and Orion more than $3 billion, funds all the Earth science and education projects the Trump administration wished to cut, as well as WFIRST, which the Trump administration wants to cancel because of cost overruns. In general, the NASA budget is a microcosm of the entire spending bill, which does nothing to cut any program anywhere, including Obamacare and a number of liberal programs that the Republicans have repeatedly promised to shut down, until they are in a position to do so. Then they act like leftist Democrats and fund everything.”
LOL
Musk also has a great sense of humor.
I’d take one Musk over ten Doctor evil’s....(bezos)
Too disrespectful of his dad!
This guy is an idiot. $70 mil to NASA is nothing, they blow that much on a toilet seat.
What Musk has done with SpaceX on a shoestring budget is nothing short of miraculous.
Although already receiving over $70 million in government funding for the BFR, SpaceX announced it wants more appropriations to help it power through to the finish line.
The rectum who wrote this is obviously in the bag for someone, or on the take. Just a single LAUNCH of the Delta IV Heavy -- which has half the payload capacity of SpaceX' Falcon Heavy -- is $350 million, and basically every dime for its development (and all of the costs of most of its launches) has come straight from taxpayers.
The Falcon 9, on which the Falcon Heavy is based, was developed for around three times that figure, most of that money coming from Musk or other private backers, and the result has been a cheap, reliable launcher that continues to drop in price. The author of the piece is just a rectum. Oh, and he's a rectum. Even Town Scrawl should be too ashamed to print such garbage. Thanks Kaslin.
My proposal is 100,000 Testes D size model rocket engines wrapped with duct tape. And it would create jobs.
Ah the good old days.
back then we would glue the fins right onto the engine....forget the costly rocket.
Little aimable missiles to launch at whatever we wanted....
speaking of childhood i read that Cox does not exist anymore.
Had so much fun with there .049 engines back in the day...
Rather than giving him any more taxpayer money, his assets should be seized and auctioned to pay back at least a fraction of what was already squandered.
SpaceX is a scam like the perpetual Vehicle car of past time. Acknowledge the current design problems, use the tests for publicity, then switch to a NEW design with NEW funding.
Sucker the funders or the Govt deep pockets.
Additionally, Elon Musk bans older workers, illegal yes, but he keeps the younger naive gullible workers to not question the scam. Your retirement tax money at work, scamming.
Yes, a relative was the Cox engineer testing their engines. I wish they had better sound mufflers though.
Two years ago landing a single Falcon 9 first stage was the greatest thing since Buck Rogers. Now, landing two out of three stages simultaneously in a brand new configuration is a giant failure?
The SLS system, run by NASA, was not mentioned in the article. How are they at spending taxpayer money?
NASA wants to waste tens of billions on SLS despite proven SpaceX Falcon Heavy
It seems NASA is much better at wasting taxpayer money than SpaceX is.
yea ok..
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