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The Russians never got to the Moon - because their Moon Rocket, the N1, had trouble getting off the launch pad in one piece. It's the same problem Elon Musk's Falcon 9 Space X rocket has been having.
It blew up on the pad back in September - taking a lot of taxpayer dollars with it.
And
before it.
Space X is a money-loser.
Tesla Motors is a money loser. Both are gaping black holes that suck up resources and spit out things that don't work or cost too much.
Usually, both
Yet the government continues to hand over money to Musk. Our money. Lots of it. Space X has burned through a reported $900 million, almost all of it insider-deal government contracts, including $400 million to develop the "next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities."
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Maybe focus on achieving
flight capabilities first.
Better yet, focus on keeping his hands out of our pockets.
That's the real problem with Space X - with
all of Musk's operations: They live off the taxpayers' dime. Could not live without the umbilical cord of taxpayer support. Which, apparently, is bottomless - regardless of Musk's failures (plural) to deliver on his hocus pocus promises.
At least the Soviet Moon program was not a crony capitalist operation. There were surely cost over-runs and inefficiencies, but no Soviet pseudo Tony Stark/
Iron Man was milking the Soviet people, as Elon Musk is doing to the American people.
He gets away with it, in part, because the media fawns over Musk as if he
were Tony Stark (whose big screen creations, unlike Elon's, at least
work).
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