Science

setting space exploration back decades

The worst part is they're doing stuff other organizations already solved. The reverse booster/thruster thing Musk wants was accomplished by the soviets back in the late '70s IIRC. They came to the conclusion it was safer and cheaper to just have people land how we've been doing it since the beginning. NASA reviewed their findings and agreed with the soviets, so we have never pursued it.

But big brain bazinga boy has to have his Trek War Cyberpunkerino, so now government subsidies are siphoned away from actual research to whatever this shit is.