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NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd hope they're paying them more, since they're working very long hours. But I do think starship is likely to do well, they've crossed some huge barriers to cheap reusability.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At what point does cheapness outweigh reliability? It was good to keep wasteful and incompetent military contractors on their toes, but that's going to have diminishing returns, eventually.

Elon's vision is spaceflight cheap enough for extremely wealthy consumers to frequent, any further in that direction and SpaceX maybe might no longer benefit the general public.

We'll see.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You don't think starship will be able to be reliable? I think they'll get falcon 9 like reliability performance at least, and they're aiming for a lot better.