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Also, WTF with lunar landers these days? Hardly any are successful except for the Chinese one.

Maybe go back to analog telemetry.

AmericanKulak says

American private enterprise

With government subsidies/contracts. And yes, other businesses get these, but there's no way SpaceX does this without government money and likely some high level management engineers involved from the likes of NASA that are still paid by NASA.

WookieMan says

With government subsidies/contracts. And yes, other businesses get these, but there's no way SpaceX does this without government money and likely some high level management engineers involved from the likes of NASA that are still paid by NASA.

Most of SpaceX's clients are now foreign countries (like ArabSat) and Starlink.

Compared to United Lobbyist Alliance, Roscosmos, and ESA, far more of a private business.

I will buy every damned share I can

Isn't it wild without CAD and no precedence we went from satellites to a moon landing in a decade, but Schlockmead-TaxmoneyShartin takes half a decade just to find out why a heat shield failed on a capsule design the basic form of which flew over half a century ago?

Another way to think about it, from the Lunar Flyby to several lunar landings in the same amount of time. Lockheed needs to be blacklisted from contracts, from the useless Littoral Combat Ship to the greatly delayed SLS (Itself 30 years in development as SDHLV) to the Orion Capsule to the F-35.

Elon won't go public until a Mars colony is self-sustaining. He won't submit to any fuckery like many have tried to do with his other companies.

AmericanKulak says

I will buy every damned share I can

Me too.

My TSLA gains since the election are enough to allow me to buy a Cybertruck if I want. I am going to be a long time HOLDER though!

The guy that absolutely revolutionized rocketry is also going to perfect full self driving and autonomy. We are almost there already.