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SpaceX’s track record is too fetishized by the Musk fanboys. Falcon 9 has some weird Demi god status even though the launch vehicle is no different than the com
by computerex 2y ago
SpaceX’s track record is too fetishized by the Musk fanboys. Falcon 9 has some weird Demi god status even though the launch vehicle is no different than the competitor like Soyuz.
- blendergeek 2y agoPart of why it has "weird Demi god status" is that it is not only so reliable but also so cheap. Soyuz is not reusable. Falcon 9 is. That is why Falcon 9 is so celebrated. No other rocket company or state-sponsored space agency comes close to its track record of cheap, reliable, reusable rockets.
- TrapLord_Rhodo 2y agoSoyuz? an expendable rocket with 40% less payload capacity? How is that a competitor to falcon 9? More like a competitor to rocketlab's current generation.
- pieix 2y agoI might have missed it, but I’ve never seen a Soyuz booster fly twice, let alone 25 times.
- inglor_cz 2y ago"though the launch vehicle is no different than the competitor like Soyuz" That is ... so obviously and blatantly untrue. That is like saying that an old wooden biplane from 1917 is not different from Boeing 777.
- marknutter 2y agoIt's been so weird to see people say willfully ignorant shit just because they don't like Elon Musk.