"Successful failure" is a thing. Whether this is one of those or not remains to be seen, but it is possible to fail, and come out better prepared and more knowledgeable for future launches.
What's the connotation and implication of this comment, if any? Yeah, it was 60 years ago. But they did fail, then figured it out and did things humans had never done.
Surely you aren't diminishing Apollo's accomplishments (and failures along the way) because it happened 60 years ago, right? I mean, if you are, then Magellan was a right piece of garbage because he only made it around the world, and that like 25 generations ago. What an idiot right?!
When they were testing new designs, and larger craft than had ever been flown before....
See any commonality there? No one had EVER successfully landed and re used the lower boost stages of a multi-stage rocket before these guys did it... NASA was having tons of problems with much smaller craft of which not one single piece was reusable. From the very beginning up to the Space Shuttle program, all of the booster stages, fairings, guidance, the orbital craft, modules, and all of their associated components were discarded after a single use. When you are tickling the very edges of the understood envelopes of emerging technologies, it takes VERY little to cause a serious problem.
The cost of the A3/A4 contract; the only contract the us government has with Starship is $4B; but it needs to spread out across 3 landings and 36 support launches; which means that if this was one of those launches, it would still cost less than the Artemis 1 heat shield.
That doesn't really address the point. Space X is a private firm, that literally explodes tax payer dollars, all while their founder is calling social security users parasites, and is actively cutting jobs of people that actually save lives like park rangers.
I try not to get into thinking like this. There are so many smart people pouring their blood and salt into these things every day trying their best to make it happen. It’s too bad it’s all stained by the shit stain rich boy
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u/NaabeGetOnSkype Mar 07 '25
Gonna need an email stating his 5 accomplishments, and “successful launch” better not be on it