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Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by BurningFrog on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:25PM (#30074702)
A pretty typical big government project to me. Lot's of power centers pulling in different directions, little focus on actual needs.

Space X does better work in part because it can make its own decisions and focus on long term goals.

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Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by wolverine876 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:31PM (#30079046)
That's the stereotype of government promoted by private business like SpaceX, so they can get the funding shifted from NASA to them. But no private business has accomplished in space anything approaching what government has. NASA has been spectacularly successful, orders of magnitude beyond any explorers in human history.

We're talking about just one of many successses on this page.

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