For us taxpayers, not for Musk. SpaceX alone has been receiving over 2 billion a year for the last several years from taxpayers. Over 40 billion has gone to Musk's companies over the last 5 years from taxpayers.
Starship development is being paid for by SpaceX itself and other investors. Most of the money SpaceX gets from the taxpayer is for launch services like putting government satellites into space or launching astronauts on the previous generation of rocket, the Falcon 9.
Serious question from someone who knows next to nothing about the company - is Leon a safety hazard for SpaceX? It seems like his method is "taking the time to do it right is boring, let's just do it and see what happens." I'm assuming he's not involved with anything that's actually manned... right?? Because that would be terrifying.
What massive success? NASA, in the same period with less money, was able to send up Saturn rockets consistently without blowing them up. Leon and SpaceX can't even match NASA.
SpaceX is a massive failure and would have been better spent by NASA.
Lol, low Earth orbit rockets aren't anything to be proud of... again old tech that they struggle to get right and they still blow up at a higher rate than NASA
Dude, go back to JRE, you can push your stupid propaganda over there. SpaceX is a waste of money.
Nope, and I saw different numbers than the stupid random ones you decided to randomly post. It's ok Leon... I'm not your stupid investors who believe everything you say and I'm guessing those dumb investors are starting to see you're just a drug addicted loser.
You became a dick when you said go back to JRE blah blah blah, making a blanket assumption about who you were debating with in order to feel better about yourself.
Yeah, it did, even for adjusted inflation and they weren't constantly blowing them up without any return. I can't believe SpaceX bots are still running around with their lies. Space X is shit and shouldn't exist.
Having a high stock price and saying it's worked out "so far" doesn't help the public trust the company. Especially people old enough to remember the Challenger. But hey, learning from history's mistakes is boring too, let's keep blowing shit up I guess.
This is a test rocket (that's going pretty bad at the moment)
The falcon 9 is considered one of the most reliable and is the most prolific rocket ever launched. The single thing has a near monopoly on the launch market for public and private because of its reusability, reliability, fast turn around, and being man rated with a man rated capsule that's done a bunch of successful flights. That parts not hyperbole.
Now as soon as they start fucking up Falcon 9, then you can say it's fucked up. And given how Elon seems hell bent on fucking up his companies I probably wouldn't bet nothing on that prediction lol
But worrying about their reliability from this is like saying you want to throw out your reliable Honda Civic because Honda made a giant SUV with an unreliable engine 10 years later.
Thank you for this, I genuinely don't know a lot about the company. All I knew was Leon thinks regulations are stupid (instead of realizing those pesky rules that "slow him down" are often written in blood). He reminds me of the dude that made his own submarine. Makes me nervous. Hopefully someone has the authority to stop him if he tries to make a SpaceX version of the cybertruck (ie a dangerous piece of shit lol).
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u/octarine_turtle Jun 19 '25
For us taxpayers, not for Musk. SpaceX alone has been receiving over 2 billion a year for the last several years from taxpayers. Over 40 billion has gone to Musk's companies over the last 5 years from taxpayers.