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Jun 24, 2025 1:34 PM
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foxxieface
They're learning how to make this process as cheap as possible within acceptable margins. Those margins being, of course, loss of life. And, those acceptabilities being the number deaths they've deemed acceptable. The fact they keep blowing up rockets means they haven't yet found the lower limits of the deaths:costs ratio yet.
wisher1977
bippityboppitybuttsex
Your tax dollars, on fire
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
I'm no fan of Elon Musk, but in all fairness, this is the way building a new launch vehicle seems to go. NASA blew up a lot of rockets early on, as well.
foxxieface
Fuck of Nazi. "I'm no fan of Elon" - goes on to defend Elon. Fuck off with this.
bippityboppitybuttsex
How many Saturns blew up?
houghten
NASA were learning how to make rockets from first principles. SpaceX has 67 years of NASA's lessons to draw on but it seems determined to re-learn them all itself.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
They're attempting to do things NASA never attempted - reusable boosters, bigger launch vehicles, etc.
LurkingSarcasm
None of those pesky government regulations, but a lot of our money anyway...
Infinias
What exactly is not "reusable" on the idea of the space shuttle? Don't frame it as if that shit stain of a human would try anything "revolutionary" new in any capacity. The only thing that makes his shit cheap is cutting corners.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
The external propellant tank.