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Flawless work. And to think that just a year ago the United States did not have the ability to deliver humans to the orbit, and now it not only has this ability
by m0zg 6y ago
Flawless work. And to think that just a year ago the United States did not have the ability to deliver humans to the orbit, and now it not only has this ability, but also has it at a record breaking low cost, and it'll only get better from here on out.
- Tepix 6y agoYour post is misleading on so many levels: * It was not a flawless launch, there were (minor) issues. * NASA's inability to deliver humans into orbit was a temporary one * Technological advances are not a given, as both the past shows and Elon Musk is saying all the time.
- m0zg 6y agoYour post, on the other hand, is facepalm inducing. Best I can tell NASA _still_ doesn't have the ability to deliver humans into orbit due mostly to bureaucracy and neglect. They purchase it from SpaceX. And to call a launch where everything went darn near perfect, 4 people were inserted into orbit and the first stage landed smack dab in the middle of the barge anything less than flawless is pedantic to the extreme. #3 is mind reading, so I won't even address it.
- Tepix 6y agoThey outsourced the development of this capability to two companies, one of them is able to deliver now. To me that sounds as if they can deliver people into orbit. Regarding the flaws, well I woke up, checked twitter (the launch was a few hours earlier) and the first 20 tweets or so were about two flaws that had since been fixed. Clearly it wasn't flawless. It was a great launch for sure but calling it flawless is just wrong.
- m0zg 6y ago"Outsourcing" is when you own the resulting IP. That is not the case here, so SpaceX is not "outsourcing".
- baq 6y agogoal post moving at its finest.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoNASA still does not have the ability to send humans into orbit. Its literally the point of commercial crew