SpaceX

[Pwns]

What a shock. Elon Musk's Starship fails on inaugural flight.

Remember when Gummit space craft like the Space Shuttle and the Saturn V failed on their inaugural flights? Me, neither.

Can we stop pretending like goofy billionaires know how to do unprecedented stuff in space more than actual scientists in engineers? We're not winning a Cold War or Space Race with China with this crap. And Elon Musk isn't coming up with some magic way to increase the amount of energy every combustible fuels have towards getting out of the planet's gravitational well.

Wish Chizzang was still here so I could rub it in.

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What a shock. Elon Musk's Starship fails on inaugural flight.

Remember when Gummit space craft like the Space Shuttle and the Saturn V failed on their inaugural flights? Me, neither.

Can we stop pretending like goofy billionaires know how to do unprecedented stuff in space more than actual scientists in engineers? We're not winning a Cold War or Space Race with China with this crap. And Elon Musk isn't coming up with some magic way to increase the amount of energy every combustible fuels have towards getting out of the planet's gravitational well.

Wish Chizzang was still here so I could rub it in.

Oops..

[BDKJMU]

Elon Musk jubilant as SpaceX Starship makes flawless flight, splash-down — and a first-ever ‘Mechazilla’ booster recovery

Incredible photos showed Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship perform its breakthrough “belly flop” maneuver as it splashed down in the Indian Ocean Sunday morning. And that wasn’t even the coolest part of the test flight.

The perfectly executed landing followed the Starship’s 232-foot Falcon Super Heavy booster rocket gracefully returning to the launchpad seven minutes after launch, where it was “caught” by a pair of enormous mechanical arms nicknamed “Mechazilla.”

The successful test flight, which took off at sunrise at SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, represented an engineering first and provided a glimpse into the future of space travel, starting with a pair of manned NASA missions to the moon in 2026….

https://nypost.com/2024/10/13/us-news/s ... lla-claws/

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary
If SpaceX can land and reuse the most powerful rocket ever made what can’t it do?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-t ... raordinary

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[Bobcat]

Its funny that a single person can do more in 10 years than the entire government has done in 50 years.

Maybe thats why the government hired Space X?

Whos gonna get to Mars first? Elon or CackleJacks and the pedo?

[kalm]

Its funny that a single person can do more in 10 years than the entire government has done in 50 years.

Maybe thats why the government hired Space X?

Whos gonna get to Mars first? Elon or CackleJacks and the pedo?

Mussolini made the trains run on time.

[GannonFan]

Its funny that a single person can do more in 10 years than the entire government has done in 50 years.

Maybe thats why the government hired Space X?

Whos gonna get to Mars first? Elon or CackleJacks and the pedo?

Let's be honest, SpaceX is far more than one person. Elon's not sitting up at night crunching the numbers and doing the math on thrust velocities or anything like that. To his credit, Elon has pointed the company in the right direction, given it goals, and has funded the company to be successful. There should be no disputing that, Elon has set the company up to be successful. But there are thousands of really good people that make up SpaceX that are doing all the other work to actually make these engineering and scientific advances possible and they deserve a lot of the credit too.

What's good about this is that it's showing that private ventures, rather than government directed, can and will work in terms of developing space technology and systems. This is what the goal was when we decided NASA running everything wasn't the most productive way forward and wouldn't meet the daunting goals ahead of us of how to explore the space around our planet, let alone other planets. This is a win for everyone and we should be celebrating that.

[Bobcat]

I disagree, its all Elon

Americans are stupid, ask Kamala and PedoWalz they are catering to it.

[SeattleGriz]

Its funny that a single person can do more in 10 years than the entire government has done in 50 years.

Maybe thats why the government hired Space X?

Whos gonna get to Mars first? Elon or CackleJacks and the pedo?

Let's be honest, SpaceX is far more than one person. Elon's not sitting up at night crunching the numbers and doing the math on thrust velocities or anything like that. To his credit, Elon has pointed the company in the right direction, given it goals, and has funded the company to be successful. There should be no disputing that, Elon has set the company up to be successful. But there are thousands of really good people that make up SpaceX that are doing all the other work to actually make these engineering and scientific advances possible and they deserve a lot of the credit too.

What's good about this is that it's showing that private ventures, rather than government directed, can and will work in terms of developing space technology and systems. This is what the goal was when we decided NASA running everything wasn't the most productive way forward and wouldn't meet the daunting goals ahead of us of how to explore the space around our planet, let alone other planets. This is a win for everyone and we should be celebrating that.

True. Corporate culture is a big factor as well. I love who I work for, but a lot of dead weight can be cut.

[Pwns]

Any person that think Elon has done more than NASA just doesn't understand the history of space travel. NASA went from not being able to put a man in space to landing on the moon in less than ten years, and in another decade developed the space shuttle with reusable sold rocket boosters.

Elon basically sits and posts on Twitter all day, anyways.

[BDKJMU]

Any person that think Elon has done more than NASA just doesn't understand the history of space travel. NASA went from not being able to put a man in space to landing on the moon in less than ten years, and in another decade developed the space shuttle with reusable sold rocket boosters.

Elon basically sits and posts on Twitter all day, anyways.

No one said Elon has done more than NASA. But nice deflect. Virtually every famous inventor has failed at 1st
https://interestingengineering.com/list ... ng-success
You made a OP. Own it. And if Chizz was still here he’d be the one rubbing it in..

[CID1990]

Musk proves over and over that private enterprise far outperforms government bureaucracy on every level and it just breaks some people’s minds.


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[Caribbean Hen]

Any person that think Elon has done more than NASA just doesn't understand the history of space travel. NASA went from not being able to put a man in space to landing on the moon in less than ten years, and in another decade developed the space shuttle with reusable sold rocket boosters.

Elons basically sits and posts on Twitter all day, anyways.

Like 80% of Federal employees

[Bobcat]

90% of them should be cut

[BDKJMU]

Just another example of govt bureaucrats who need to be fired.