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Old 20th October 2023 | 19:09
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Originally Posted by Less Hair
Let the FAA do its job. No industry fast track for billionaires please.
SpaceX has advanced the start of the art in the launching payloads into space more in the last 10 years than NASA has in the last 50 years. And that did that with precious little government funding.
They didn't do that because they had the FAA looking over their shoulder and second guessing everything they did.
Sometimes you need to turn the innovators loose to do their thing.
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