Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 day agoNASA hasn’t take the slightest risk since Challenger. They wouldn’t have accomplished 1/20th of the launch capability SpaceX has developed in the last 5 years.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Generally NASA doesn’t “develop” rockets per se, they commission rockets to specification.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s the specification process that’s the thing, nobody there would have gone out on a limb the way SpaceX has with their recovery systems. Look where they are on a shuttle replacement: nowhere.