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SpaceX just showed us what every day could be like in spaceflight
- oldpersonintx 3y ago[flagged]
- schnitzelstoat 3y agoArtemis is using SpaceX's launch vehicles.
- oldpersonintx 3y ago[dead]
- inemesitaffia 3y agoNo need to cancel Artemis. Every part of the return to the moon has it's pluses and minuses
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- Shrezzing 3y agoSpaceX is benefiting enormously from their supply chain receiving a $50bn injection from the Artemis program.
- bell-cot 3y agoNASA is the piper, not the paymaster who calls the tune. Try a Google search for "Senate Launch System", or "Space Policy Directive 1".
- soco 3y agoPutting all eggs in one basket? That's not very smart, giving one player all the balls in the game. Otherwise it's called monopoly, in a market some like to think as "free" and "competitional". How about we look at Artemis/anythingelse and try to make it efficient instead?
- me_me_me 3y agoNASA thanks to some trump staffer did put all eggs in. Every mission in the past had a fallback contractor for all components. For Artemis due to political pressure they dropped all fallback options and use spaceX as only contractor! crazy but thats how corruption works This is the reason Blue Origin sued some years back.
- kemotep 3y agoThat would kill one of the largest projects SpaceX is currently working on. Additionally, SLS has successfully demonstrated their part of the Artemis program with the Artemis I launch. SpaceX has not completed a full mission for its part in Artemis III which has now been delayed and caused NASA to start implementing plan B for Artemis V and beyond missions. It is theoretically possible that Blue Origin will land on the moon before SpaceX if Starship cannot work out all the issues in the next 2 years.
- pests 3y agoThey should get to space first.
- kemotep 3y agoBlue Origin has successfully completed 24 launches to Space as of December 2023. To say they have never been to space is to not pay attention. While SpaceX is far and away the leader in private space companies, with significantly higher total number of launches and innovations compared to Blue Origin, it is still possible for them to fail to execute this one specific mission before Blue Origin’s. They should not rest on their laurels because they have completed hundreds of launches. The specifics of Artemis III require SpaceX to execute several launches of systems that have never been to space, and complete maneuvers in space refueling that have never been done before. If successful it will be a huge milestone in human space missions, let alone private space operations. They can fail to do this and because of delays from NASA and other partners could possibly have this mission completed after Blue Origin’s.
- pests 3y agoEverything you say applies to BO too; except they have less experience and launches under their belt to begin with.
- wongarsu 3y agoJust to be clear, Artemis III was delayed first due to the legal challenge from Blue Origin, then again due to issues with the Orion capsule. SpaceX almost certainly wouldn't have been able to meet the original deadlines, but to their luck the other contributors don't have an easy time either.
- honeybadger1 3y agoGood leadership
- carabiner 3y agoIt's crazy that he almost became CEO of Apple when Jobs died.
- LeonM 3y agoSpaceX's CEO is Gwynne Shotwell, and she did not almost become CEO of Apple.
- e4325f 3y agoMusk is CEO. Shotwell is COO.
- LeonM 3y agoYou're right, I made a mistake there. Day-to-day leadership is performed by Gwynne. Musk is founder, majority shareholder, CTO and CEO. According to Musk himself, he spends the majority of his time at SpaceX as engineer, letting Gwynne lead the company.
- e4325f 3y agoYour response looks like it came from ChatGPT.
- danpalmer 3y agoNot sure why you're getting downvoted. SpaceX's leadership from Gwynne Shotwell has been truly excellent. I've also heard that many other leaders have had to be quite influential in order to steer the company in a productive direction while receiving constant dictats from a major shareholder. I've heard the Starlink group is perhaps a bit of a difficult area where that shareholder has too much influence and that it lacks leadership, but other than that the company sounds well run.
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- johnea 3y agoWell sure, it's gonna be so awesome to have 1,300,000 objects in low earth orbit! What could go wrong? Launch baby launch...
- mlindner 3y agoWell the worst case is a cascade of collisions if everyone gives up trying to avoid debris. But it'd only leave low earth orbit unusable, othernorbits would be still usable.
- funcDropShadow 3y agoYou just have to navigate to other orbits without passing through lower orbits.
- mrlonglong 3y agoJournalists irritate me greatly when they specify imperial units yet don't always bother to give the metric equivalents. For example 10 million pounds is about 4,500 tons, or roughly 4,500,000 kg. Metric units makes far more sense anyway.
- delichon 3y agoWould you enable an algorithm built into the browser, or extension, that standardizes the units to your preference, but lets you see the original value with a click? I'm hoping we see an ecosystem of such services emerge.
- mrlonglong 3y agoThat would be nice,if an extension does that.