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Originally Posted by tadd View Post

Its just shame that is what was put up (the car).

I would rather have seen Musk offer free spots to space for university or high school satellites. Some sort of contest. Maybe with cost matching to build.

That would have been cool.

As for spaceX, they are at the spot in time where everything can come together. Private companies do that well. The raw science and innovation... not so much.

SpaceX hasn't invented what has got them to here. Just the glue (software) to hold it all together. Somebody else has done the engineering on the pieces in the past.

Wow! Not to be disrespectful! But really? That's like telling Kelly Johnson that his Blackbird was a stretch of the Wilbur Wrights Kittyhawk technology. I agree that the physics hasn't changed but these craft and made very differently. The isogrid and monocoque carbon fiber technology has made these structures stronger and lighter. These aerostructures are getting progressively better. The guidance, telemetry and instrumentation is obviously had a macro technological jump. I'm proud of Space X for what they have accomplished and I'm glad to see some young engineering blood in the game. Tell me who has ever landed a spent booster like that before. You're Listening to Obama too much.