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Originally Posted by KNS
Challenger, Columbia..?
I'm a huge fan of NASA and manned space flight since seeing some of the last Apollo and Skylab mission on TV when I was a little squirt. For how many decades has NASA been talking about going back to the moon or Mars (yes, I know it's not their fault funding gets slashed)? I would have hated to have been a NASA astronaut selected to go to the moon 20 years ago - you'd retire out of the program before NASA actually got you there. Musk is making things happen - now.
If Musk wants to spend his billions going to Mars, fantastic! I would think most nations of the world would be envious to have such an innovator to call their own.
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exactly right, when NASA fails, its a world changing event. when spaceX fails, thousands cheer and call it success. 1 tile, and 1 oring being bad, and people die. spaceX needs to do this 4 or 5 times, in a matter of about 3 hours, with zero failures of any kind, using 60+ engines per starship, in order *start* to do what starship claims to do.
the main problem KNS, is that starship is already 50% funded by the US taxpayer. money we will never get back. if it was just venture capital, id be far easier on it. but hes blowing up billions of our dollars.
NASA already wrote starship off, it will not meet design goals in time to be useful. it was originally funded in order to do resupply for a moon mission. NASA has written it off, it will not be capable in time. so like the serious people, doing the serious work, actually getting to space and building things that work ... have already written it off.
meanwhile, artemis works, is paid for, and has already been to the moon and back. like NASA won. already, before elon even cleared the tower.