This is what private industry can do when government gets out of the way

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That is amazing.

What I think is even more amazing is to watch it from further out.

This is a skyscraper falling through the atmosphere with the aerodynamics of a bridge column.

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Got to love Elon Musk and SpaceX. Thank God for visionaries like him.

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McDonnell Douglas had developed similar technology back in the early 90s. Sadly, after one crash they ended the program.

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Elon has done great things with our tax dollars. To be fair, so has NASA. Is Space X more efficient with our dollars than NASA? Maybe?. But, NASA endeavors are sometimes not the type that have the inherit capability to produce a profit. As an example, designing and building the James Webb Telescope. There isn’t much in the way of profiting from the telescope, but we still want it (at least I do).

Bottom line, space exploration can benefit from public and private entities working together, that’s why the great Ronald Reagan promoted that idea.

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Just think how many booster rockets are on the bottom of the ocean from NASA.

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Government should go back to the very small handful of duties it has been given in the Constitution… about 2% to 3% of its current size. But apologize to us first. And let all living government employees and their heirs assume the national debt, we shouldn’t have to pay for that.

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