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Watch Live: SpaceX's Dragon Undocks, Deorbits, and Returns to Earth

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines5/31/2012 9:15:38 am PDT

Contrary to a lot of what you hear from the lazy, ignorant media, this is NOT about free enterprise vs. government. NASA has always bought its rockets from established contractors like Boeing, Lockheed, and their assorted predecessors. It is about Elon Musk and his SpaceX team hijacking the established contractors’ 50 year old gravy train and showing them up for the monopolists and profiteers they are. The Shuttle could do the same job for five times the cost. Judging from some of the comments I’ve seen at various news sites, there are people who liked it that way. I wonder which of the fatcat contractors they worked for?