: "That didn't help Tesla much. (And SpaceX didn't take NASA money for Falcon 1, which was ultimately a viable smallsat launcher. They did take NASA money for Falcon 9v1, but its development costs were about $300 million, which Elon *might* have been able to scrounge from other sources if he had to.)"

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That didn't help Tesla much. (And SpaceX didn't take NASA money for Falcon 1, which was ultimately a viable smallsat launcher. They did take NASA money for Falcon 9v1, but its development costs were about $300 million, which Elon *might* have been able to scrounge from other sources if he had to.)

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Ooooh Jerry Pournelle is your *boyfriend*! j/k of course, and yeah, SpaceX is what I’m thinking of.

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