[mephitix]

What is fake about all the milestones they achieved?

[bdjsiqoocwk]

Well to me the only milestone that matters is the cost of launching to orbit, and that hasn't improved.

[unsnap_biceps]

As much as I dislike Musk, this is really not true at all. It is a order of magnitude cheaper post-SpaceX to launch things into orbit then it was pre-SpaceX

[TMWNN]

NASA administrator Bill Nelson quoted a member of the Joint Chiefs as telling him that SpaceX had saved the US government $40 billion for just launching military payloads. <https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/05/did-spacex-really-...>

On the civilian side, SpaceX saved NASA $2 billion for just one payload, Europa Clipper <https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/a-year-from-launch-the...>, so who knows how many billions more from other launches.

[echoangle]

Wouldn't the cost of anything only significantly decrease after a second competitor becomes competitive? Why would SpaceX decrease costs further when they are already the cheapest? Unless the increased market gained by going lower increases total income after expenses, it would be net negative to do that.

[nortlov]

https://www.aei.org/articles/moores-law-meet-musks-law-the-u...

[ThrowawayTestr]

I don't understand how someone can be this misinformed