[rig666]

Let's be honest. The mental gymnastics to avoid calling it a rescue is just a political knee jerk reaction to Elon Musk's ownership in SpaceX.

If you lose your ability to become objective based on your view no amount of philosophical discourse is going to be meaningful. It's comments like this why "cope & seeth" has flourished in the modern lexicon

[Teever]

The government would be doing the exact same thing to avoid bad PR if this didn't involve him.

[dotnet00]

Accusing me of taking issue with Elon's ownership is funny, considering that usually I'm accused of being an Elon shill :)

[gertop]

Then maybe you're just a contrarian?

[LightBug1]

Personally, that's a part of it. I might it find more tasteful if Shotwell and her team (the actual heroes) were ones getting the credit here, but Musk will get the headlines.

But it's not a political knee jerk reaction. It's an actual jerk reaction to him being such an actual jerk. The guy, and his current cohot, are distateful wankers. Excuse my English.

[hayd]

Politicians should not, indeed in the US it can be illegal for government branches to, make decisions based on the political views of a vendor’s CEO.

Clearly the current administration have been doing this willy nilly. Excuse my English.

[iknowstuff]

what gives you the idea that Shotwell is more responsible for SpaceX’s success than Musk?