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Indeed, how were SpaceX and Scaled Composites able to do so much with such limited resources, 30 years later and having benefited immensely from NASA's pioneeri
by saturn 15y ago
Indeed, how were SpaceX and Scaled Composites able to do so much with such limited resources, 30 years later and having benefited immensely from NASA's pioneering work?
NASA could definitely be run better but let's compare apples to apples. I'm sure any given engineer at SpaceX has a computer on his desk superior to the entire world's computational capacity at the time the shuttle was designed.
- true_religion 15y agoI think its disingenuous to say that. People are not comparing SpaceX of today to NASA of 30 years ago. They're comparing contemporary NASA to contemporary SpaceX and finding NASA is lacking.
- stretchwithme 15y agoNASA could also be compared to the Russian program and found lacking. And the Russians still have an ability to put things into space, while the US now doesn't.