This has always been the downside of the commercialization of space flight in the current environment. NASA may have its problems but they always knew the priority was making things work and be repeatable. This is antithetical to how Musk and the tech bros work - any success on their part is a fluke not a predictable result.

NASA built a super-heavy lifter in the 60s to throw a 2 ton mass at the Moon.

SpaceX built a super-heavy lifter in the 2010s to retain 50% of its 420 tons of mass in low Earth orbit, and purportedly go to Mars.

See the problem?

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