SpaceX has defense contracts and also even if they didn't, real serious rocketry is firmly within the realm of ITAR, the DoD giving your senior engineers a list of countries they must never visit, and generals whom nuclear missiles reading your product roadmaps, so that line absolutely does exist
Ever since my team got re-org’d and our purview changed to include satellites, I’ve become more and more surprised that no one has shitcanned Elon/SpaceX already, because the rules there require pretty actively thinking about them with every action you take, which Elon clearly isn’t doing.
I kind of assume that they just really, really don't want to have to go back to relying on ULA and Northrup for everything since by all accounts they were *terrible* before SpaceX forced them to get off their asses and do real r&d again
Yeah, and I really do think there was a point in time when SpaceX was doing incredible work. There’s still engineers there who want to do good work when they’re allowed to. They’ve single-handedly brought down the cost to put things in LEO, and that’s fucking awesome.
oh no… are they all subs in those rocket capsules… confined spaces, restrictive suits, peeing in their silly suits with lots of closures… gdi gdi… i need to find a better system for the astronaut problem
