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      Everyone has already told you it’s not a precedent but I should also note the eminent domain literally only requires the US to pay a fair market price, not for them to not take it.

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      that precedent already exists.

      For example, the Chattanooga and Tennessee Electric Power Company was nationalized into the TVA; As well as the rail roads and financial industries have a revolving door of nationalization-an-de-nationalization.

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          Just to head that off, SpaceX doesn’t have competition at this point. ULA can’t match the Falcon rockets, and Boeing has their fingers in that pie. Blue Origin is staring at a corner and appears to be wanking itself. Virgin Galactic is only interested in space tourism. There’s a bunch of little companies trying to get past the R&D stage, but nobody substantial. NASA’s own rockets are an expensive boondoggle because Congress can’t shut up and let them do their job.

          SpaceX is it. Nationalizing the company would not only get rid of the company’s biggest problem (the meatsack ego at its top), but would also do an end run around Congress treating NASA as a jobs program with pork in every state.

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              I caught a NDGT clip talking about how the nasa and space program in general accounted for a fraction of a percent of the us budget.

              We need to cut Boeings military contracts and send it to nasa.