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Just give the whole contract to SpaceX already
by fourseventy 2y ago
Just give the whole contract to SpaceX already
- adamm255 2y agoHas SpaceX even been outside low earth orbit with anything meaningful?
- pennomi 2y agoThey regularly have missions to Geostationary Transfer Orbit, but I assume that’s not what you’re talking about.
- CobrastanJorji 2y agoNot yet, but I believe the Artemis 3 manned moon landing is still a planned for 2026.
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- ktpecot 2y ago"Launches to higher-orbits have included DSCOVR to Sun–Earth Lagrange point L1, TESS to a lunar flyby, a Tesla Roadster demonstration payload to a heliocentric orbit extending past the orbit of Mars, DART to the asteroid Didymos, Euclid to Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, and Psyche to the asteroid 16 Psyche." Per wikipedia, not sure if those count as meaningful. Plus Europe Clipper in a few months.
- dotnet00 2y agoIf you mean human spaceflight, current Boeing has less experience flying humans to anywhere in space than SpaceX, let alone beyond low earth orbit. If you mean general spaceflight, SpaceX has launched more lunar and interplanetary payloads than Boeing has in the past decade or two. Boeing and its proponents love to talk about things like "spaceflight heritage", but none of that means anything when most if not all of those employees are gone and nothing was done to transfer the knowledge.
- akira2501 2y agoIt was Rockwell. It was always Rockwell. Boeing's heritage is that they bought it.
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- mcmcmc 2y agoSure, let’s give the richest man on earth who spends more time trolling on Twitter than working more taxpayer dollars for his self enrichment
- stass 2y agoDoes this somehow disqualifies SpaceX as a contract supplier?
- dotnet00 2y ago"This service is awful, let's switch to the better one" You: "and give them money in exchange for services rendered?!!?"
- mcmcmc 2y agoThe whole thing is a boondoggle and running a deficit to redistribute more wealth to the top should disgust people. Your strawman is meaningless.
- dotnet00 2y agoWhere's the strawman? You're whining about giving money to SpaceX in exchange for asking SpaceX to build something to the specifications of the program. That's not redistributing wealth to the top, that's purchasing a service.
- mcmcmc 2y agoYou literally made up a quote that I did not say to create a nonsensical argument. Taking taxpayer money and spending it on something that doesn’t benefit taxpayers, but does benefit people with equity in Spacex, is wealth redistribution. All fiscal policy is wealth redistribution when it comes down to it.
- tim333 2y agoMusk is only really rich because he owned Tesla and SpaceX and those were only successful because they produced better stuff and transformed their industries. The system is kind of working as intended. Do you think things would be better if Musk never happened and we had relied on GM and Boeing?
- chasd00 2y agoIndeed. Iirc Falcon Heavy has the capability right.now. They time/effort only needs to be spent on the lander and getting back.
- ordu 2y agoSpaceX faces the same risks of becoming a monopolist and then declining. To give the whole contract to him maybe is a good short term solution, but long term it will end badly.