5 korrents from this piece · 1 of them a turn
Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.
Their wordsFour years on, the program has consumed another $20b with nothing to show for it.
Their wordsThis is symptomatic of an agency who, compromising their technical integrity on their flagship program, subsequently lost the ability to maintain technical integrity anywhere else.
Their wordsSLS, like JWST before it, eats everything in its path, meanwhile NASA hasn’t sent a single mission to Venus since 1989.
No longer holdsAt the time I was optimistic, now I am not.
Their words nowThis obviously has not occurred.
Our reading
Without SpaceX, neither the United States nor Europe would have adequate access to space of its own.
Their wordsBut for SpaceX, both the US and Europe would lack adequate strategic access to space.