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by MangoCoffee 5y ago
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the take away for me from this article is SpaceX's appoarch is like software development.
fail often and fail fast, stock options for employees to retain talents.
i also believe Elon's vision for Mars paint a goal for SpaceX employees and Gwynne Shotwell. She is the force behind SpaceX.
- deepsun 5y agoSoviets tried that approach with their Moon robotic landing. I mean landings. The heads of that effort were mostly military generals from artillery, who used to test by firing it. After a few unsuccessful launches (sometimes at the very late stages during moon landing, and sometimes fully capable drone got just blown up on launchpad), they realized they need to change the strategy and test rigorously on land every small piece.
- panick21_ 5y agoSpaceX does that and have always done. SpaceX was famous in the industry for test firing. SpaceX has early on internalized a lot of iterative testing, testing in the small and then testing in the large. The Soviets moon rocket was the opposite, they build engines and only did sample testing because they used non-reusable pyros on the rocket. Those engines also couldn't restart.