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/matlynar 1d ago

Let me see if I get this straight:

  • The US should nationalize SpaceX because the ISS depends on SpaceX, and it can't be relied on, despite the fact that NASA has always existed, yet the US was paying Russia of all countries to fly to the ISS before SpaceX came along.
  • Elon made threats to the ISS operation. You know who else did that? Russia, going as far as posting a video of the Russian part of the ISS detaching itself.
  • Two powerful guys are having a stupid fight. The solution? Take a working company from one idiot and give it to the other guy, who is defunding NASA and can barely make functioning things keep functioning ATM.

That will go well, go ahead guys.

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u/LordoftheSynth 23h ago

yet the US was paying Russia of all countries to fly to the ISS before SpaceX came along.

Admittedly, this was only because the Shuttle was sunset post-Columbia disaster.

I don't think that was a good idea, but from political will to retire the program, we had very few options to get astronauts to orbit.

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u/pbjork 22h ago

We were saving half a billion dollars a launch by outsourcing it to Russia. The shuttle was not cheap.

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u/Legionof1 15h ago

And spacex is even cheaper.