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    SpaceX revenue this year will be ~$15.5B, of which NASA is ~$1.1B. SpaceX commercial revenue will exceed NASA budget next year.
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    SpaceX revenue this year will be ~$15.5B, of which NASA is ~$1.1B. SpaceX commercial revenue will exceed NASA budget next year.

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    1. PerAsperaAdMars on

      Celebrating that you led to a 24% cut in the budget of an agency on which your company’s profitability relies is some unique level of billionaire sociopathy that I will never comprehend.

    2. Gloomy_Interview_525 on

      Less science, more celebrities in space. Can’t imagine celebrating this.

    3. FloridaGatorMan on

      One of the most effective cons of all time is misleading the public into thinking NASA = government, slow, bureaucratic, ineffective, don’t have the best talent and SpaceX = Innovative, fast moving, flexible, commercial, private sector.

      Instead of they’re both big parts of a public private partnership that has worked together for decades and achieved some of the most amazing things in human history. That SpaceX makes a massive amount of their money from government contracts and wouldn’t exist without government grants and investment.

      My favorite is when my roommate once asked me “Did you know NASA just pays companies to make parts for their rockets?” He said it like it was some kind of scam. Like they can’t do it themselves so they have to secretly get private companies to do it. I responded with “Did you know the Air Force didn’t build Air Force One?”

      Saying this before the Musk troop comes in here and lectures us all that he’d inventing every piece of the rockets himself.

    5. DarthPineapple5 on

      Literally meaningless, revenue is not profit and we don’t know how much if anything SpaceX currently makes in profit.

    6. Decronym on

      Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

      |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[ATK](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzjxfx “Last usage”)|Alliant Techsystems, predecessor to Orbital ATK|
      |[DoD](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzga9r “Last usage”)|US Department of Defense|
      |EELV|[Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_Expendable_Launch_Vehicle)|
      |[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzi51e “Last usage”)|Federal Aviation Administration|
      |[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzkiag “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
      |[NSSL](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzndps “Last usage”)|National Security Space Launch, formerly EELV|
      |[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzjxfx “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
      |[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzjxfx “Last usage”)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|

      |Jargon|Definition|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1l38sbq/stub/mvzla4u “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|

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