The book is an exploration of and presents an argument for militarism. That alone doesn’t make it propaganda. While many of the sentiments, implications, premises in the book carry a clear bias, the book nevertheless invites the reader to engage with and reflect on the ideology rather than aiming to manipulate and indoctrinate the reader.

I’d say the earnest argument presented by Heinlein in ST is flawed and morally objectionable, but not a piece of propaganda.

Well they are accountable to the FAA, which is why Elon is dismantling it

Fuck Elon and the argument is cute… But SpaceX is not exactly the right target for it because these tests are funded with private money and the whole point of these tests is to give the tech a safe and controlled opportunity to fail so they can write a report on why it failed so they can address it for the next test.

Perhaps you can find some big publically funded projects under Elon’s companies that lack scrutiny.