Elon Musk has hit back at astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson after the latter’s comments about SpaceX.
The online feud between the two scientific behemoths began after Tyson claimed that SpaceX had not done anything “that NASA hasn’t already done” in a video shared on social media in September this year.
“What Elon is pioneering is not what is impossible in space exploration but what was unrealistic in terms of price,” Tyson said in the video, taken from around the 17-minute mark of an episode of the podcast Moonshots with Peter Diamandis.
“The engineering is getting a workover, but consider that he hasn’t done anything that NASA hasn’t already done. The actual space frontier is still held by NASA.
“It remains to be shown if his new ventures have commercial support, commercial value. Because, if they don’t, then it’s a one-off, and it’s a spectacle…we’ll all applaud it but then he goes …