Comment Re:Erm... (Score 2) 137
SpaceX *is* doing pretty well, despite the spectacular failures.
The problem is all about Elon Musk communication. To put it bluntly, he is a manipulative bastard. But the rockets, yes, they are fine, very good actually. I don't know how much SpaceX got in state funding, but probably a lot more than meets the eye. Again, I don't consider it a bad thing, US rocketry had been an international joke between the Space Shuttle and the Falcon 9. The people who put a man on the moon have their astronauts travel on a Russian rocket, come on... of course the state should put their money in a company that can actually build rockets! But it didn't stop Elon Musk from bad mouthing the government, and going back to the article, "pretending that space is easy".
Just don't listen to Elon Musk hype and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. He has some technical skills though, so on that ground, he has interesting things to say, unfortunately, most of what we hear about from him is not that, with exceptions, like Tim Dodd visit to SpaceX on YouTube.