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Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning (www.planetearthandbeyond.co)

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this guy shreds SpaceX. sounds a lot like Tesla promises from king ketamine

picture alt; Starship blasts off on a column of red/orange flame and smoke against a red/orange sky.

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[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

This has always been the downside of the commercialization of space flight in the current environment. NASA may have its problems but they always knew the priority was making things work and be repeatable. This is antithetical to how Musk and the tech bros work - any success on their part is a fluke not a predictable result.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NASA built a super-heavy lifter in the 60s to throw a 2 ton mass at the Moon.

SpaceX built a super-heavy lifter in the 2010s to retain 50% of its 420 tons of mass in low Earth orbit, and purportedly go to Mars.

See the problem?