Comments on: SpaceX turned down government money to build Falcon Heavy https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-turned-down-government-money-to-build-falcon-heavy/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:25:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-turned-down-government-money-to-build-falcon-heavy/#comment-1060054 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:25:38 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54017#comment-1060054 “You need to [try to not] get money from the government, otherwise the government will tell you what to build and how to build it… they will tell you how to build this and that’s just not always – I mean for some things it’s the best to do, but in others it’s actually not.”

This is the danger for everything governments are doing in space right now. At least with companies wanting to launch and operate their own stations, there is a way out but everything I have read about lunar activities revolve around government entanglements.

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