I'm worried spacex will end up a bit like Tesla, largely abandoned for Musk to go off on some political weirdness.

Doubt it. Musk only owns something like ~15% of Tesla, and owns about 50% of spacex. He knows tesla is overvalued immensely and wants to deeply integrate himself with government to make sure spacex becomes the de facto space org. for the United States (possibly).

What "blatant lies" though? The question hasn't really been answered. The user wrote:

>Exploiting and lying about the monumental efforts of a pioneering industry for cheap political points

I don't know what this means. When someone tells a blatant lie, it would be easy to quote them for a start. What 'monumental effort' was lied about? If it's about Boeing then I have to say I too think the company is doing a terrible job and if anyone is lying about the effort it's them, there have been numerous whistleblowers who came out and talked about the coverups at Boeing.

I didn't personally use the word "blatant", but when I said "lying" I was referring to claims that:

* The Biden administration either forgot about or deliberately chose to leave astronauts in space for political reasons.

* Trump's request accelerated the decision to bring the astronauts home.

"Monumental efforts" was a more general comment about the space industry, including the activities of both NASA and SpaceX. Bringing astronauts home from space when equipment has gone faulty is a challenge I do not envy whatsoever. For Trump to claim credit in the venture is bordering on obscene.