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SpaceX’s Starship breaks up mid-flight, forcing airlines to avoid debris (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] brucethemoose 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

SpaceX was a public darling and frankly nailing things before Elon became so infamous. The NASA director, under Biden, has explicitly said “We work with SpaceX, not Elon” and seems to be quite satisfied with them.

So I’m… Annoyed people are so reflexively disgusted with SpaceX now when relatively normal stuff like this happens. You can be disgusted that Elon is making money from it, or wherever his involvement screws with things, but that doesn't mean SpaceX is necessarily a mess.

[–] Poxlox 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I know some SpaceX people from college and snooped some team leadership posts on LinkedIn. Their culture is awful and they are full of little Elon bootlickers. I saw a manager praise Russia on LinkedIn. I dont buy that SpaceX is a cultural necessity. If we hadn't defunded NASA so much maybe we'd see even greater levels of innovation, you won't ever know because of this private company garbage.

[–] brucethemoose 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I saw a manager praise Russia on LinkedIn

If it’s in relation to Roscosmos or something similar, I’d be totally fine with that. Soyuz has been a workhorse, it’s reliability is kind of unreal.

Contracting "private company garbage," just like NASA is doing now, is what got NASA to the moon in the first place.

And fact is, their results have been great. It’s not a cultural necessity anyone's forcing, it's working, otherwise NASA would have dropped them.

I hate Elon as much as anyone else, I haven't liked him for years. Maybe SpaceX has a terrible company culture. But railing against them because of who's in charge sounds a lot like political meddling to me… What if Elon was bluntly liberal instead, and Trump canned SpaceX soley because of that? Is that what you're asking Biden\Nelson to do?