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Until it started doing this Starship thing and literally blowing up money regularly.
by AstralStorm 3y ago
Until it started doing this Starship thing and literally blowing up money regularly.
- boeingUH60 3y agoYou mean rapidly experimenting and innovating to cut costs, unlike the competitors who don’t have the guts to do that and constantly rob the taxpayer blind?
- jwells89 3y agoThat isn’t really a problem so long as as it delivers a more capable product more quickly and cheaply than the old method of rockets remaining mostly paper for the better part of two decades.
- ggreer 3y agoThat's part of the reason for their success. They iterate rapidly and learn from their mistakes. SpaceX destroyed nine Falcon 9 boosters and one test booster (Grasshopper) before managing to land one. Now they have more successful consecutive booster landings than any other rocket family has had successful consecutive launches.