Yes. SpaceX has done bad things and deserves to be criticized for them. But (and I think this is analogous to a lot of issues) the problem here isn’t that SpaceX isn’t NASA; it’s that NASA doesn’t have the political room to experiment and inevitably sometimes fail that SpaceX does. This is too complex an issue to fit all the layers and nuance into one honk, but “SpaceX is bad because their rockets explode” is not a good analysis. https://chaos.social/@russss/110249195107310284
@vruba There’s also some hard-to-say-if-it’s-willful ignorance about NASA’s goal of developing a private space industry. I’ve seen people say, “imagine if NASA had [astronomical monetary figure representing SpaceX’s R&D since 2002].” They did! They gave it to SpaceX!
@robinsonmeyer Exxxactly. This is the system working as designed at the moment.
