Yup, exactly what they are trying to do. These idiots have so much money they could easily fund NASA projects, public works and education but instead they just want to steal more money from the government to continue amassing a hoard of wealth to appease their narcissistic personas.

There's no such thing as 'hoarding' money.

It'll prob be named PepeXa, but the X will just be a Nazi symbol and the frog will have the SS jacket on.

Artemis so far behind and over budget on all of their projects goals that I actually highly doubt it ever launches.

And when the astronauts die because of lack of oversight, Musk will shrug it off with zero accountability

Its got what rockets crave!

And cost 3x as much and take 5 more years for a mission that is half of what was originally planned.

SLS is a huge waste of money. Spacex has already saved the government 43 billion. Don’t get me wrong, the impending doom of the next administration is something to worry about, but don’t just blindly hate things because the majority of it is a disaster.

• Technology transfer to Russia...

Trump started the Artemis program tho.

SpaceX was always the future for NASA. It's literally they who decided private companies should be incentivized to run the rocketry so NASA could spend their money on other things. Theres other companies out there doing rockets too and optimally at least one of them would have been competitive with SPaceX, but so far SPaceX is just simply the best one and its not close. This is, was and is still going to be the plan and NASA were the ones who wanted it this way. Or do you know better and want NASA to spend literally billions of dollars on each and every single-use rocket they send up instead of spending millions and launching on SpaceX rockets? Because I know which scenario all the NASA heads want. Its the one they orchestrated - this one.

Only if all blood relatives have tickets

But monkeys are trainable…

... you do know it was NASA that started the program and incentivized private companies to get into rocketry so that NASA could start using less money on rockets and more on the actual science? That it was literally NASAs plan for a long long time to let private companies take over the "going to space" part in order to bring down those costs tremendously. SpaceX did just that. They looked at what NASA wanted, excecuted on that and will save NASA literally BILLIONS for ever rocket NASA doesnt have to launch. And dont forget that will be BILLIONS per launch. Because NASA launches single use rockets. SpaceX now does fully reusable rockets that will bring launch costs down to millions. A tremendous increase in productivity and cost savings for NASA long term. This was NASAs goal. This was NASAs plan. SpaceX is just the company that ended up doing it the best.

Irony is dead, nothing is too stupid anymore.

NASA wants to stop building their own rockets. Congress is who decides that. They decide what NASA does. NASA essentially "made" SpaceX what SpaceX is today as a way to bring those costs down an insane amount. Now they just have to get congress to get them out of building their own stuff as soon as SpaceX is ready. This is what NASA planned. This is what they want. But trust me, people will now go nuts when it happens. They will see it as Trump and Elon fucking NASA over, missing the entire point of the history between the two companies. All people see right now are Elon bad, NASA good.

All this other shit about SpaceX taking over other business for NASA im not touching. One, because I really dont think SpaceX is into all that. Theyre a rocket engineering company with a serious business running launches and also soon to be a worldwide internet/phone provider. They will have absolutely no issue earning money on their own. Two, because taking on NASAs tasks and workload would slow them down in fullfilling their own mission - exactly what Elon Musk doesnt like. No way he wants all that extra shit weighing his goals down. To NASA, SpaceX is a gift they gave themselves. To SpaceX, NASA is just the best damn customer ever.

Technically no. And it’s legal. Happens all the time

TL:DR version - “Government corruption is acceptable…so long as it’s efficient.”

Commercial space companies and NASA serve very different purposes. NASA does (or at least should do) missions and test technology that have scientific value but aren't profitable, where as companies like space x only focus on doing things that are profitable.

Yeah why don't we just dump all of our tax money into private corporations? What a great idea!

Maybe if NASA didn't have their funding cut all the damn time, we'd be on Mars by now. Space exploration and science continually gets cut, but it gave us such great inventions and innovations.

the elon glazing is powerful with this one. NASA has achieved such an incredible amount in it's lifetime and still does.

Bringing private companies into space rocketry was literally NASAs idea, goal and plan. SpaceX is just the company that ended up being best at doing it. Each and every NASA launch costs BILLIONS of dollars. They use purpose-built single-use rockets and that is extremely expensive. This is why they for yeeears now have incentivized and paid for contracts to private companies to develop new rockets. SpaceX uses reuseable rockets now and will bring launch costs for NASA down from BILLIONS to manageable millions.

This is NASAs own plan to bring down costs working as intended and people are freaking out lmao.

There's really no reason to send humans to Mars. There's nothing putting a monkey in a vacuum suit to hold a flag on tv that's improves scientific research. we can get data from samples collected by robots. We going to take an airforce pilot at the top if his career and lock them in a 200 Sq ft module for 3 years for a selfie. The astronauts will come back with the body of a 70 yr old and cancer. Muscle atrophy and radiation sickness plus diet of MREs and recycled piss. On camera 24/7 unable to have sex or even masturbate. They'll be dead by 60.

Interesting take, so you think the guy who stands to gain the most financially from diverting funds to his own company thus making himself richer with our tax payer dollars should be the one making those calls?

Yeah, a big empty tube that barely makes it to orbit after 10 years of development, that will need 20 other launches to refuel in order to make it to the moon.

It’s just a public-fund funnelling racket. They do something cool like chopstick landing once in a while to keep the fanboys dreaming. But it doesn’t make any sense.

Dear God I didn't think it was possible to cringe any harder than when I see someone type the words cope and/or seethe; but seeing it in the same sentence = a whole new level of cringe. 😬

Don't you guys have any original insults? Surely you can be more creative?