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I agree that Gwynne should be getting more praise than she gets now. But Elon is phenomenally good at getting from 0 to something that works. And colonizing Ma
by option 2y ago
I agree that Gwynne should be getting more praise than she gets now.
But Elon is phenomenally good at getting from 0 to something that works. And colonizing Mars has many, many various needs beyond Starship that have never been done before.
- lurking_swe 2y agomy opinion is that Elon is fantastic at very early stage startups, like what SpaceX was years ago. I don’t think Elon is as helpful after a companies become more mature. That’s why I worded my comment the way I did. :)
- asadotzler 2y agoSpaceX is not at the early stages because LEO transport is not the destination, Mars colonization is. In that light, we're not even at fully reusable rockets yet and then there's making them cheap and reliable and then there's the actual transport of large amounts of stuff and people to Mars. That's what SpaceX is about, not lofting up com sats and astronauts. So, no, they are not mature yet except on one tech they need to get to Mars and that's being operationalized efficiently by Shotwell just fine. The rest of SpaceX's much harder work, still in its infancy.