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FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
1. Being a billionaire means you can buy your fifteen minutes of fame over and over.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:35 AM
Feb 2022

TBH, Beyond tired of that guy’s bullshit.

If only we could nationalize and recognize this space effort by so many, and detach it from the Narcissistic “great man” mindset of ultra-wealthy megalomaniacs like Musk.

LastDemocratInSC

(3,647 posts)
2. Many engineers and technicians, formerly with NASA
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:15 AM
Feb 2022

were picked up by SpaceX and other companies at the end of the space shuttle era. Musk's successes are hardly his own doing.

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
6. Yeah, I find space travel is so much better when the experience is truly shared.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 11:56 AM
Feb 2022


Correctamundo. I would so much prefer a shared international, rather than a corporate effort.
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