Credit where credit is due. You make a good point Ocho. But we don't know all the details. I bet the cat gives plenty of money to them anyway. I'd hope so anyway.
My point was Bezos, Elon and Branson are just pissing away billions to brag about going to space and putting a bow on the pig by throwing some money at charity. If these guys are building space infrastructure NASA will lease for their purposes it could be a good private-public partnership. But as cool as missions to mars and exploring the galaxy are they are giant money pits really and the cost keeps going up... We never really discuss whether it is worth it No matter what wealthy tourists will pay for a ride to space it will never cover the cost. Elon might be overleveraging himslef on SpaceX stuff and when another country or company chases the same pot of gold they could implode.
I couldn't agree more. It has baffled me from the rip. I guess they're smarter than us Ocho. They see something we don't.
They are definitely way smarter than me because that is some serious money... APRIL 2021 Elon Musk's privately held rocket company SpaceX raised around $1.16 billion via equity funding over the last two months per SEC filings, with the company now reportedly being valued at $74 billion. This compares to a previous valuation of $46 billion based on a $2 billion fundraise last August.
oh, he cares. Elon's just another Trump with +30IQ points on sub-100 Donnie. Remember that spat w/the cave rescuer? Dude's as thin skinned and eager for validation as the orange nutjob.
There is a lot more to SpaceX than tourism. They launch dozens of satellites, provide transport to and from the International space station, work directly with NASA on multiple projects including plans returning to the Moon in 2023/24, planned Mars Mission and more. Branson and Bezos are about short flight tourism, Musk and SpaceX have a much bigger picture in mind.
That's another beef I've got with Musk. As an amateur astronomy buff I do not appreciate all that junk in the night sky. Not to mention the emitting manufacture of all that junk, the off-worlding of the resources, and the addition to the problem of proliferating space junk.