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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.
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.
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?
The booster landed intact with all engines firing until they were turned off. The top half experienced issues where there was gas accumulation in the thruster area.
This is the first time they got two landings of the booster in a row so that's a win for them. I despise Elon but SpaceX has put space back on the menu and I love them for it.
They missed the last catch? 5 was caught, 6 was not caught, and 7 (this latest one) was caught.
Imagine dying to a "plane crash" because some rocket debris hit your plane. 🙄
There were procedures in place to prevent exactly this and they worked just fine.
Was one of them that it wasn't made out of cardboard or cardboard derivatives?
Ironically, cardboard and cardboard derivatives would have safely burned to ash and been scattered in the upper atmosphere. There's have been no reason to close the airspace if that were the case
We do the dying, so he can do the flying.
Let him fly all the way to Mars. If he truly wants to occupy it, he can lead the way. 🫡
I'm staying home, lol
They work very very closely with FAA et all world wide.
It's rockets. Shit happens.
Indeed. I'll dunk on modern day Elon any day but there is two ways of developing flying stuff.
One is doing it mainly in offices and development rigs spending tons of money on engineers and simulators of various types to get your data needed for FAA approval.
The other way is spending tons of money on engineers and test flights to get your FAA data.
One is not inherently better than the other, or more dangerous for that matter. One just happen to be more to be more spectacular and make better headlines. It's also quite wasteful I guess but the same goes for most of our civilisation...
Airlines / manufacturers have intentionally crashed airplanes (via remote control) in order to recreate crashes and test. It's just part of the game no matter what.
There is tons of destructive testing in aviation.
Two of my favorites: https://youtu.be/lgspIiTFWIk?si=liTN70x10xzOkrRm https://youtu.be/K2QoanZq2jE?si=ANXjkCGwqm8kHefN
With Elon it's mostly bad shit happening on the taxpayers dime.
Yay.
