> Musk... [is chalked] up as a charlatan... [leaving out] the fact that SpaceX has delivered on everything it has set out to do so far There's no contradiction

> Musk... [is chalked] up as a charlatan... [leaving out] the fact that SpaceX has delivered on everything it has set out to do so far There's no contradiction here. Musk has regularly made ludicrous claims about what SpaceX is going to achieve, while SpaceX is much more conservative in its official statements. The entire operating model of SpaceX makes it difficult to claim that they've ever failed -- the fact that they're now on their fourth brand of "interplanetary starship" (MCT, ITS, BFR, Starship) can be chalked up to "iterative development", as can the fact they abandoned their first planned moon flyby, etc. I think this is a reasonable way for SpaceX to operate, but Musk uses it as a kind of "credibility battery".