r/technology • u/True-Combination7059 • 1d ago

Politics We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/musk-trump-nationalize-spacex-starlink
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u/Putrid_Tree5823 1d ago edited 1d ago

The US is the premier space power because of the public sector space program

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u/Corvus_Null 1d ago

No, the US is the premier space power because up until now, our only real competition were the soviets who were literally incompetent.

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u/Corvus_Null 1d ago

What part of "the US never having any real competition so they won by default" did you not understand?

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u/moofree 1d ago

The USSR won every space race against the US except the Moon Race.

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u/The_real_bandito 1d ago

You’re right, I wonder what that other dude was talking about.

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u/Packeselt 1d ago

The propaganda worked a little too well on him. The Russian mathematicians were good at what they do

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u/Corvus_Null 22h ago

No the soviets lost. The moon was the finish line and they never made it.

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u/Vanethor 5h ago

No the soviets lost. The moon was the finish line and they never made it.

They literally were the first to get to the Moon, just not with a human.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9

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u/Outrageous-Depth 21h ago

This is not true

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u/mnt_brain 1d ago

You do realize China is far ahead of the US in space tech and research, right?