Will SpaceX Super Rocket Kill NASA's 'Rocket to Nowhere'? (Op-Ed)

Space.com ^ | February 10, 2014 | R.D. Boozer

[hinckley buzzard]

Yep, thousand plane raids were pretty hard to ignore.

[GeronL]

Saturn V wasn’t big enough for that

[hattend]

This all begs the question: If SpaceX is going to build this gargantuan rocket on its own dime, anyway, why is the U.S. Congress forcing NASA to develop the less capable Space Launch System (SLS) for many billions of dollars more? ...

Isn't Musk a Friend of Barry and isn't Space-X getting some government funding? That's hardly on it's own dime.

If Space-X IS going on it's own, then time to dismantle NASA. Engineers can go to work at Space-X.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 2/17/2014.

Thanks EveningStar.

A re-ping.

The BFR isn't even needed to accomplish the kill -- assuming that a gubmint pork barrel responds to lack of necessity -- the Falcon Heavy should more than take care of it.