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SpaceX has accomplished some amazing things. There are some very brilliant engineers working at that company. The fact that they are routinely landing and reusing first stage boosters is absolutely extraordinary, Starship is one of the most impressive launchers that humanity has ever devised, In a century, when children are learning about space flight, SpaceX will be alongside the space shuttle and Soyuz as groundbreaking achievements in human spaceflight.
The fact that The engineers and technicians at SpaceX have accomplished so much, while being led (on paper) by a man as stupid as Musk, is a massive testament to their skill. I salute those workers who have accomplished so much despite all the hurdles that have been put in their way.
Remember what this article is about. After several dozen, if not hundreds, of successful launches and landings, one booster failed to make a successful landing on a barge in the middle of the ocean after successfully putting its payload in orbit. People who designed and built this system deserve to be proud of their accomplishment.
And we should be grateful, that while Musk is nominally CEO, He's let competent people run this company for him. Because God knows if he were actually running things day to day the falcon 9 would look like the bazinga truck and would explode 3 ft off the ground.
(Of course, their environmental record is not good, their plan to fill low earth orbit with cheap satellites that deplete or ozone is questionable, there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to make about this company.)
yeah, let me find the post about how much effort spaceX has to waste on managing Musk
https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296/elon-wyd
We should nationalize SpaceX, make them part of NASA, and go back to just building our own goddamn rockets.
If these people can reuse a rocket three dozen times, landing it on a barge in the middle of the ocean, while trying to placate the world's richest toddler, imagine what they could do with an actual budget, part of an actual agency with a mission to explore space instead of make musk more money.
Well said!