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by SoftTalker 659 days ago
OK granted. NASA and legacy aerospace contractors were milking a cash cow and never thought they would face a new competitor.

But I was more thinking of fundamental capabilites. We (USA and USSR) have had crewed low-orbit space stations since the 1970s and have been sending astronauts to and from them since then. We sent probes to Mars and Venus and other planets in the 1970s. The Voyagers were launched in 1977. The stuff we're capable of doing today has not really advanced.

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SpaceX's rockets are a big advance.
It's easy to No True Scotsman SpaceX's achievements by simply defining them away.