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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
the difference is that NASA doesn't have the failure in the first place.
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Challenger, Columbia..?
I'm a huge fan of NASA and manned space flight since seeing some of the last Apollo and Skylab mission on TV when I was a little squirt. For how many decades has NASA been talking about going back to the moon or Mars (yes, I know it's not their fault funding gets slashed)? I would have hated to have been a NASA astronaut selected to go to the moon 20 years ago - you'd retire out of the program before NASA actually got you there. Musk is making things happen - now.
If Musk wants to spend his billions going to Mars, fantastic! I would think most nations of the world would be envious to have such an innovator to call their own.