Very cool. Who needs NASA muslim indoctrination when free-enterprise can further mankind?
Good job by SpaceX, but the money for the Dragon program is coming from NASA.
Don’t kid yourself. The Falcon 9 and other models in the new wave of private venture rockets are based on decades of scientific and engineering work by NASA and the US military. Guided by veteran rocket engineers — and unlike NASA and the military — the Falcon relies on a design philosophy of low cost reliability. Notably, the one major Falcon innovation — the return landing of the booster — has proven troublesome. Mastering that trick will unlock billions in economic value.