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SpaceX destroyed the main funding for their space agency.

Raptor 1 is already better then any Russian engine along most metrics.

And Rogozin is a journalist made oligarch, he doesn't know shit. Accusing Elon of not being an expert is quite funny coming from him.

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I don't think he was speaking to an international audience when he said that, even though it may appear to be like that. Russia is internally quite fragile and to admit that they lost their edge is something that comes with a pretty high price so - just like it always was - they engage in weak PR.

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