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SpaceX Space Station

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> then rely on private enterprise to provide a suitable commercial alternative.

Read: To provide exorbitant profits to private defense/aerospace corporations, as if all of the war profiteering on Afghanistan and now Ukraine, and the enormous payday they got during covid, wasn't enough.

The "public" ISS gave over $100B to Boeing et al.

(sighs and hangs head down.)

As opposed to the alternative…which is?

Compare the price tags for SpaceX missions to those for the latest "government-issue" launching system [1] and your thesis is not just punctured but nullified and voided.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-gener...

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