It is rather incredible how dominant Falcon 9 is in the current launch market.

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    11 months ago

    Oh my goodness no. Private spaceflight is the future because it’s not nationalized. Can you imagine Congress cutting off SpaceX simply because they don’t see its use? I’m a big fan of NASA, but they would’ve been on Mars by now had they not been run by the government.

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      11 months ago

      I wonder how it would actually play out. They would probably extend Falcon 9 and Dragon production indefinitely and descope Starship to the minimum needed for HLS? Then I would invest all my hope and prayers into Stoke pulling off full reuse?

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      11 months ago

      An alternate meaning for the red, white and blue could have been US territories on Mars, the Moon, and Earth.