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Re:Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence by nine_k on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:00PM (#36660375)
> How much work and knowledge of taxpayer funded NASA did SpaceX reuse.

Judging from the way SpaceX builds, fuels, and flies their rockets and engines, very-very little.

Their contracts with NASA and later DoD did, of course, play a significant role. But I suppose they were chosen on merit.

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Re:Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence by tremorscript on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:37AM (#36666227)
We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Now I am not a space engineer, but I doubt SpaceX invented a whole new way to reach space.
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