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   on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:17:39 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
   > SpaceX now launches more orbital rockets than any other entity on the planet—in 2023, ninety-eight of 109 total American launch attempts (and it appears, though it is hard to get data, that NASA launched only a handful, now being nearly wholly reliant on SpaceX)
   
   I was always under the impression that SpaceX was still rather experimental, but apparently they are much further than that.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:28:19 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @Groomschild I suspect I had the wrong impression because I'm not that interested in the space business, so I only heard about it when something blew up.
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     Groomschild (groomschild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:28:20 JST Groomschild

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     @lain Elon is giving spacex enough money to rival NASA during the space race so what is experimental today is routine in five years

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     Groomschild (groomschild@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:29:57 JST Groomschild

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     @lain A rocket larger than the statue of Liberty went from conceptual to reliable production in less than 10 years during the space race

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     aZa (aza1905@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:51:17 JST aZa

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     @lain nope, definitely not.

     SpaceX is a very good and very capable space company.

     Other competitors are great too though

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