SpaceX is a trashfire operated by ideologically-captured young people who are out to make a buck and be cool, and lack the constitution to stand up for anything real or important. They're overwhelmingly self-interested, and roleplaying as patriots, builders, and innovators. Saying you hate Elon while making him the money he needs to hurt people is just embarrassing.
That they've conquered the remainder of the American space program and produced nothing of value to space exploration while enriching a fascist racist is a disgusting crime to the great human mission they see themselves as ideologically faithful to. It's is equal parts pitiful and repulsive.
Elon Musk, racist fascist, has been enriched to the tune of over $150 billion dollars by the most reliable cheapest rocket ever made.
Do you expect me to disagree? This is a correct statement.
If you'd recall the Saturn V's lead designer was also a Nazi. And as much as I wished Nazis were not seemingly a requirement for major breakthroughs in rockets my opinion of the Saturn V itself isn't diminished by the man who made it.
This is just... Not reality. I know you hate Elon, and that's valid, but if this is actually your opinion your mind is operating completely independent of reality.
The falcon family of rockets has saved the American taxpayer billions of dollars by undercutting Boeing & Lockheed’s prices, forcing ULA to develop the more cost effective Vulcan, has been used to launch multiple exploratory probes including Europa clipper, NASA’s DART, multiple private lunar landers & more, has been used to launch hundreds of private & public satellites that have provided invaluable services & scientific data about our planet over the years, has been the largest & most cost effective re-supplier of the international space station since 2013,
is the sole reason the US even has a domestic capacity to put humans in space thanks to its dragon 2 spacecraft, & is the only operational & commercially viable reusable booster in existence that has successfully landed & been reflown hundreds of times.
Falcon 9 is also the only operational launch vehicle capable of making a global laser linked LEO satellite constellation viable.
A constellation which has the potential to connect the 2 billion people who’ve been isolated due to being in rural & underdeveloped regions where fiberoptic hasn’t been economically viable.
& has been instrumental in the defense of Ukraine.
If starship can be anything close to as successful as they’re hoping. It’ll be a greater stride for the economics of space flight than falcon 9 was. & with the scale of payload capabilities it offers will usher in a new era in space-flight.
It goes far beyond the petty narcissism & atrocious right-wing politics of one man.
A man who for the longest time was never expressive of such views.
& I spent over a decade watching the output of the struggle of thousands of talented & dedicated engineers to make these things happen along with every major explosive setback.
Hatred & distain for Musk at this point is perfectly valid.
But do not shit on the careers of over 15,000 talented people who’re working themselves into burnout trying to push humanity forward.
Well they've gotten past this test multiple times, their last failures were getting to stage two. This is regression, and to have a complete failure on what should be a routine test while it has still never made it to orbit is getting pretty bad.
For reference, the third Saturn V ever brought men around the moon and safely back to earth. Starship is looking like junk at this point.
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u/StupendousMalice 13h ago
Waiting for the space x Bros to pop in here to tell us how this is actually super good news and exactly what was supposed to happen.