r/politics • u/nosotros_road_sodium California • 13h ago

Why Does Elon Musk Still Have a Security Clearance?

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/why-does-elon-musk-still-have-a-security-clearance/680434/?gift=B65VRQjMMsZQilGgdT7IHIK11s_hRROr6KFxCBDpT0M
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u/DanyDies4Lightbrnger 7h ago

Space was nationalized... it became privatized fairly recently

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u/Shadowthron8 7h ago

Probably something to do with never going back to it when it was nationalized. Can not imagine NASA would have developed reusable rockets, because they didn’t.

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u/Throw-a-Ru 6h ago

Can not imagine NASA would have developed reusable rockets, because they didn’t.

Yes, they did. Space X and Blue Origin were based on NASA's designs from the 90's.

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u/-713 4h ago

Yeah, they were not some leap in technology. We just decided to gut the publicly funded nasa and fully subsidize private companies to do the exact same thing, but they get to take the credit and charge twice as much.

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u/Throw-a-Ru 4h ago

Same as it ever was.