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I'm still impressed that SpaceX, with <20 years of experience, is even in the same ballpark as Boeing and its 101 years.
by saulrh 8y ago
I'm still impressed that SpaceX, with <20 years of experience, is even in the same ballpark as Boeing and its 101 years.
- ghrifter 8y agoIm surprised people worship SpaceX for reinventing 1970s rocket tech. Huh, same thing when Go reinvented 1970s programming language C and branded it Go. ULA will always crush SpaceX
- mcguire 8y agoCheck out how many of the Space X team have experience leading government space contractors. (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-technologies/current_employees/current_employees_image_list#section-current-team https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-te...). They're not going in raw.
- jve 8y agoAs Gwynne Shotwell (President of SpaceX) in some interview said something along the lines: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants" Basically they didn't start from beginning, but just continues from the point where knowledge has been accumulated over those years.