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Elon is the guy who said, "that is the craziest idea I've ever heard, here's billions, let's build it"

It's 100% Musk that this happened, literally no one else would have done it. Everyone thought it was dumb until today. No company, no government or sci fi movie for that matter had even thought of it in the first place.

SpaceX engineers given the green light by Musk, not NASA, made it a reality. That's not to say Elon didn't make many decisions along the way in the design and development of both Starship, the launch towers and everything else.

The point is, Elon deserves a hell of a lot of credit along with everyone else. Everyone has their part to play in the success of the mission.




Correct, and that's why NASA outsourced funding.

Because if NASA risked billions on "crazy ideas" they'd get shut down, being a government agency.

No point pretending it's all Elon.


You’re pretending if you think anyone but Elon would approve building a massive launch tower with chopstick arms to catch what is essentially an incoming bomb.




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