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Starship is still entirely unproven. There's a possible world where the cut corners and the Dear Moon mission winds up with the vehicle burning up on reentry o
by lamontcg 3y ago
Starship is still entirely unproven.
There's a possible world where the cut corners and the Dear Moon mission winds up with the vehicle burning up on reentry or slamming itself into the ground, killing Tim Dodd and everyone on board, with the resultant investigation looking something like OceanGate.
SLS is big, dumb and stupid and has a LES and a capsule that lands via parachutes. If SpaceX fails as a company after some accident like that, the SLS will just continue to plod along.
- boxed 3y agoYes, Starship is unproven. But Falcon Heavy is very real. > If SpaceX fails as a company after some accident like [starship failing and killing people], the SLS will just continue to plod along. Well.. yes. But note also that if SLS crashes and kills a bunch of astronauts it will certainly plod along too. That's what the Shuttle did. The difference being one of NASA/Boeing and SpaceX are accountable for killing astronauts, while the other is not.