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This. This right here. I absolutely hate seeing the two compared. They're doing two very different things with two very different goals.
by sashahrzg 4y ago
This. This right here. I absolutely hate seeing the two compared. They're doing two very different things with two very different goals.
- zmgsabst 4y agoWhat do you think is different about their goals?
- sashahrzg 4y agoSpaceX is a profit motivated company with large degrees of flexibility. They move fast and break ships. NASA is a research institution focused on scientific advancement and space research. They also are very rigid due to the way they receive funding. NASA cannot afford to move to a starship style system because the SLS contract was locked in.
- bottlepalm 4y agoAll that scientific advancement to end up 50 years later with a Moon vehicle not much more different than Apollo.
- dotnet00 4y agoTheir goals are similar, NASA is just hamstrung by Congress and the general public. If NASA had the freedom to choose its direction they too would be working on a Starship style rocket by now, not attempting to pass off a dinosaur as modern.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> NASA is just hamstrung by Congress and the general public I don't think you can assert that NASA hasn't or wouldn't fall to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. What makes NASA special to be immune to such dysfunction?
- p_l 4y agoOr they might have ran their original design of STS instead of one hamstrung and made hilariously expensive due to contract with DoD