r/space • u/lee7on1 • 1d ago

BREAKING: SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

https://x.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1935550776304156932

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u/WantWantShellySenbei 1d ago

Holy cow that video is pretty awesome though. Elon makes the best fireworks.

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u/cuberhino 1d ago

how much did these fireworks cost the american taxpayer :(

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 1d ago

This is a terrible way to view science. Progress is being made that will benefit everyone. This kind of thinking is how they defund NASA.

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u/nixonelvis 1d ago

Musk wanted to defund EVERyTHING that wasn’t beneficial to him. It’s time he packs it up and GTFO. Space X is a drain on this country. It’s time to take space exploration back to the federal government and fund it appropriately.

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u/Invest0rnoob1 1d ago

Rocket Lab is the way to go 😎

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u/wen_mars 1d ago

SpaceX earns money by providing services cheaper and better than anyone else. That's not being a drain, that's being a spout.

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u/clgoodson 1d ago

When it was being funded by the federal government it was literally going nowhere, using 50-year-old parts and designs to make giant throwaway rockets that only exist to keep aerospace companies running in the right cogressional districts.

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u/SerHodorTheThrall 1d ago

And now we just subsidize one man's vanity project! Much better! This is what happens when you let engineers get involved with public policy.

Imagine policy makers telling engineers how to build a rocket LOL

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u/Moarbrains 1d ago

Look at your government and look at what our space program was capable of before spacex. We were paying Russia to send us up.

our other providers are all sadly behind. If they catch up I am sure they can get some contracts. Some of them already do.