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To his credit he didn’t kill Artemis, as everyone had expected.
To his detriment, he didn’t kill Artemis and replace it with something workable.
Last times catch was incredible, anything groundbreaking being attempted this time?
They're working off the same license they used for test 5, so they basically have to exactly the same thing they did for test 5. They did manage to add this: "An additional objective for this flight will be attempting an in-space burn using a single Raptor engine, further demonstrating the capabilities required to conduct a ship deorbit burn prior to orbital missions."
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That, and the falling booster ~really looks like a cigarette butt.
Seriously, who cares! There are far more interesting stuff in space exploration than this flight tests of a giant boiler that's been going on for years now.
SpaceX just posted this video of the last test. It's one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI9HQfCAw64
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SpaceX did get government contracts, but not subsidies, and saved NASA and US Taxpayers lots of money.
SpaceX's contracts were absolutely subsidies - the contracted Falcon 1 tests and the resulting Falcon 9 contracts were an expensive moonshot for the USG at first - but even if you discount them, Tesla absolutely hoovered up subsidies like the EV tax credits. They even have a page about them: https://www.tesla.com/support/incentives
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