SpaceX set for historic launch as human spaceflight enters new era

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SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from US soil in nine years.

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👎👎 1:03 just because the mere fact that this (or any service) comes from private companies does not always ensue that it must be cheaper. That kind of thinking has brought us to easily overwhelmed and undercut national health services globally.
What made Space X drive down the cost was engineering innovation, reusing rockets and optimizing rocket stages. Where the money comes and the outcomes of which from shouldn't matter a difference if from public or private $, albeit Nasa was always politically frozen and fell out of favour in the 80s for the Pendagon and Military Industrial Complex.

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