>>13271741Elon doesn't fly on F9 because SpaceX isn't a personal pet project like Blue Origin. They are a company that actually expects results and wants to make a profit.
Meanwhile Jeff has to almost literally cry to Congress that big meanie Elon stole all the NASA contracts and won't play fair. Fucking pathetic.
>>13272120I will be genuinely surprised if NASA makes it back to the Moon.
China has the right attitude, and they would be happy to risk lives on a half cocked Mars mission, but their rocket tech is basically just Soviet tier reversed engineered shit combined with ideas they stole from JPL.
SpaceX, regardless of how you feel about Elon, is the only entity that's actually innovating and doing something new right now. I think Musk is massively optimistic yes, but unless something changes dramatically SpaceX is like 2-3 decades closer to Mars than anyone else.
