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Originally Posted by RNajarian
This is definitely something new to me. I live 2 miles from JPL, and frequently get tours from a high school friend who is an engineer there. What is the name of the program, I would love to read about it.
Regardless, Space X, under Musk’s leadership, has ensured the US remain a leader in space exploration. Without SpaceX we had no way to get to the ISS. We paid Russia 75 million per astronaut for a round trip.
Billions underwater? He created the Falcons and Raptors with far less resources than legacy spacecraft manufacturer Boeing.
Is it possible some political bias is seeping into your opinion of these remarkable SpaceX achievements?
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no, im just tired of "success" metrics for elon being something that someone else already did decades before, cheaper, and faster.
i believe the first VTVL was in 1993. 31 years ago.
spaceX isnt insuring anyone is anywhere, its a multi-billion dollar skinkhole that can't hit its targets on budget or on time, which NASA, and JPL regularly do. starship is a comedy of errors of engineering that will never work as intended, even it can do some of the things promised, some of the time, years late, and billions overbudget. its the cybertruck, but for space.
like this isnt amazing, we are watching expensive, technical failure, and cheering it on as success. if this was a government program, you'd all be trying to kill it as fast as possible, and would be a *showcase* textbook example of awful program and budget management. the NASA budget would be slashed in a heartbeat if they had failed this hard on anything.
artemis I has already orbited the moon. its paid for. and it works. like we already did this, cheaper, faster, and already paid for it.