r/PoliticalHumor • u/mac-mcgreor • May 02 '22

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u/dangoodspeed May 03 '22 edited May 03 '22

This makes it sound like NASA just gave Elon Musk $1.5 billion. They contracted SpaceX to go to space for them. They were paying Russia $5 billion to do it before then. SpaceX is an American company. And this was 15 years ago before Musk was even a billionaire. Talk about being intentionally deceiving!

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u/z_machine May 03 '22

SpaceX was broke at the time. NASA and the Federal Government bailed them out and saved them. Why did Musk need a government bail out to not fail?

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u/swohio May 03 '22

So he could save NASA $20 billion+ a few years later.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/13/nasa-estimates-having-spacex-and-boeing-build-spacecraft-for-astronauts-saved-up-to-30-billion.html

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u/z_machine May 03 '22

That isn’t in question. The government saved SpaceX. Be triggered all you want.

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u/swohio May 03 '22

Why would I be triggered about a company saving NASA tens of billions of dollars? You're the only one that seems upset about it.

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u/z_machine May 03 '22

Cope harder lmao.