Comment on Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoThe alternatives are setting up SoEs to build your rockets, or putting people responsible to the state and not the shareholders on the board.
There is a core conflict of interest in that every dollar of profit these companies make is a dollar that isn’t going into building the rocket or lowering the cost.
Balex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But SpaceX has literally lowered the cost of a launch by an order of magnitude. They also are flying one of the most successful rockets ever flown.