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points by parineum 1 day ago | 0 comments

> Falcon 9 is partial reusable, took a lot of money to do so and yeah its a good product. Not sure how expensive it was for US americans to gift it to Spacex but sure.

How much money have Americans gifted NASA to pay Russia for launching payloads ton Soyuz rockets?

Do you frame all government funding as "gifting"?

[–] wongarsu 1 day ago

And you could just as easily frame it as Musk "gifting" something to the US government by offering cheaper launches than Roscosmos and Boeing/ULA, and developing new capabilities cheaper than Boeing

[–] origini 1 day ago

Are you trying to argue against me? Because you are doing a strawman.

Let me criticsize NASA for paying / gifting Russia for launching payloads.

So we are now back to square one.

Pls continue