The Falcon Heavy was developed with private capital with Musk stating that the cost was more than $500 million...

>The Falcon Heavy was developed with private capital with Musk stating that the cost was more than $500 million. No government financing was provided for its development.[18]
How does this make you butthurt NEETs feel?

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Most of the retards ragging on Tesla/SpaceX have never actually done any research into the amount of "government financing" the companies actually get. They just read some paid shill accusing musk of being a parasite and jump on the bandwagon.

The reality is that virtually all the money these companies have comes from private investment.
There are some kickbacks from green-energy subsidies, but these aren't exclusive to his tech companies and not everywhere in the world offers them.

He's running two successful American companies that are making America great again, and there are some salty as fuck losers that want nothing more than to see that success destroyed. It reminds me of how people are constantly ragging on America itself.

let me know when it works
>2/3

Now look up how much nasa put into developing the falcon.

>You can only post in this thread if your country has achieved orbit this year.
New Zealanders and South Africans are fine.

Good! I like Elon he uses his money for his boyhood dreams and not like Gates for shitskins and niggers.

privates you talk about are just proxies between Musk and the FED. So this is state-financed, aka "VC Welfare".

tiny compared to other launch vehicles. And it saves you, the moron taxpayer, money anyways. I'd much rather SpX launch govt payloads than UL "1 billion a year in launch assurance is necessary" A

Imagine if Gates put even 10% of his wealth into space travel twenty years ago. We'd be colonizing Mars now.

hey scatalonia, when are you going to realize that government doesnt matter anymore. musk didnt have any government funding because he knows he can get a shit ton more money from corporations.

All I can do is think of the Saturn V still the tallest heaviest and with the largest payload to date. Developed from the public domain like most of the modern tech we use including microchips, the internet, satellites etc.. so thank yuh socialism fu yuh Sup Forums really

>No government subsadies we're provided for this contract
I don't believe it, prove it cunt

>He doesn't know that the most expensive proposed project in NASA history was only $100 million
Go suck that socialists cock elsewhere r3ddit

I honesty don't know what you're getting at here

Where's all the flat earthers?

Function
Apollo lunar program launcher
Launch of Skylab
Manufacturer
Boeing (S-IC)
North American (S-II)
Douglas (S-IVB)
Country of origin United States
Project cost $6.417 billion in 1964–1973 dollars[1]
Cost per launch $185 million in 1969–1971 dollars[2] ($1.16 billion in 2016 value), of which $110 million was for vehicle.[3]
Size
Height 363.0 ft (110.6 m)
Diameter 33.0 ft (10.1 m)
Mass 6,540,000 lb (2,970,000 kg)[4]
Stages 3
Capacity
Payload to LEO (90 nmi (170 km), 30° inclination) 310,000 lb (140,000 kg)[5][6][note 1]
Payload to TLI 107,100 lb (48,600 kg)[4]
Associated rockets
Family Saturn
Derivatives Saturn INT-21
Comparable
Historic: N1 (Never operational) Future: Long March 9 SLS BFR
Launch history
Status Retired
Launch sites LC-39, Kennedy Space Center
Total launches 13
Successes 12
Failures 0
Partial failures 1 (Apollo 6)
First flight November 9, 1967 (AS-501[note 2] Apollo 4)
Last flight May 14, 1973 (AS-513 Skylab 1)
First stage – S-IC
Length 138.0 ft (42.1 m)
Diameter 33.0 ft (10.1 m)
Empty mass 287,000 lb (130,000 kg)
Gross mass 5,040,000 lb (2,290,000 kg)
Engines 5 Rocketdyne F-1
Thrust 7,891,000 lbf (35,100 kN) sea level
Specific impulse 263 seconds (2.58 km/s) sea level
Burn time 168 seconds
Fuel RP-1/LOX
Second stage – S-II
Length 81.5 ft (24.8 m)
Diameter 33.0 ft (10.1 m)
Empty mass 88,400 lb (40,100 kg)[note 3]
Gross mass 1,093,900 lb (496,200 kg)[note 3]
Engines 5 Rocketdyne J-2
Thrust 1,155,800 lbf (5,141 kN) vacuum
Specific impulse 421 seconds (4.13 km/s) vacuum
Burn time 360 seconds
Fuel LH2/LOX
Third stage – S-IVB
Length 61.6 ft (18.8 m)
Diameter 21.7 ft (6.6 m)
Empty mass 29,700 lb (13,500 kg)[4][note 4]
Gross mass 271,000 lb (123,000 kg)[note 4]
Engines 1 Rocketdyne J-2
Thrust 225,000 lbf (1,000 kN) vacuum
Specific impulse 421 seconds (4.13 km/s) vacuum
Burn time 165 + 335 seconds (2 burns)
Fuel LH2/LOX

>How does this make you butthurt NEETs feel
Makes me think I should've held onto the 100k buttcoins I had 5 years ago.

>bunch of bullshit
shut up leaf

If yuh hadn't spent 700 billion a year on bombs an bullets where could we be now?

hitting eachother with sticks and stones in space

>BLURGHGHGHGHG HES A FRAUD

>HNGGGUERPPHPHPH HES A CON MAN

>DERRHGHGPRLFUBBBBB SPACE X EMPLYEES ARE SCAM ARTISTS

lmfao CHECK MATE SHILLS i beat you to it.

Why did he go bald?

I was NEET for hald a decade, and desu with that experience I feel nothing. Good for Musk and his workers.

>The Falcon Heavy was developed with private capital with Musk stating that the cost was more than $500 million. No government financing was provided for its development.[18]
>How does this make you butthurt NEETs feel?

Feels good man.

He got shitloads of money from the government and then used NASA plans to built the rocketship. Without socialism musk would be nothing.

Musk is sending Liberals to the Moon
and then,
hopefully,
Mars!

I can' wait until Liberals actually miss Mars and then fly into the Asteroid belt!

Or maybe they get to Mars but "lose signal" permanently.

Falcon Heavy isn’t even on par with 1960s American technology you retard.

>No government financing was provided for its development.

>Uses wikipedia
>Doesn't read the source

>SpaceX announced its first Falcon Heavy launch contract with the United States Department of Defense (DoD). "The United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded SpaceX two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions" including the Space Test Program 2 (STP-2) mission for Falcon Heavy, originally scheduled to be launched in March 2017.
>GPIM is a new propellant demonstrator project partly developed by the US Air Force

>nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/GreenPropellantInfusionMissionProject_v2.pdf1l

Government pays money to spacex

mfw that 500 million was given to Mush by the gubment/taxpayer and was used to show what it could do to sell more to the gubment. How does this make the 1/4 brain feel?