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> Elon Musk… rolled the dice and won. But only barely. > He was one launch failure away from bankruptcy at one point. That was the Dragon 1 back in 2008, year
by nyokodo 2y ago
> Elon Musk… rolled the dice and won. But only barely.
> He was one launch failure away from bankruptcy at one point.
That was the Dragon 1 back in 2008, years before Commercial Crew and during the company’s scrappy startup phase. SpaceX has since emerged as the launch leader in the world. The idea that they only just scraped it together for commercial crew is to ignore hundreds of Falcon 9 launches with a world-class reliability and now a totally unprecedented launch cadence. It’s a total nonsense argument.
- lisper 2y agoI didn't mean to imply that he rolled the dice with Crew, but that he rolled the dice with SpaceX in general. By the time Crew came along you are right, they had already surpassed Boeing in terms of engineering know-how. (The fact that Boeing more or less unilaterally disarmed by dismantling their engineering culture during that time didn't hurt either.)