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SpaceX started off based on a DARPA proposal/challenge too right? Or at least the DARPA challenge for re-usable rockets aligned well with SpaceX's demonstrable

SpaceX started off based on a DARPA proposal/challenge too right? Or at least the DARPA challenge for re-usable rockets aligned well with SpaceX's demonstrable success.

hoppp 2y ago
They wanted to go to mars and tried buying russian rockets first, but they were too expensive so they started building them. Nothing to do with Darpa, at least I dont find any relations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX
Xmd5a 2y ago
>In a post-accident report, NASA's Brand Commission blamed the accident on a burnt-out field crew who had been operating under on-again/off-again funding and constant threats of outright cancellation. The crew, many of them originally from the SDIO program, were also highly critical of NASA's "chilling" effect on the program, and the masses of paperwork NASA demanded as part of the testing regimen.[citation needed] >NASA had taken on the project grudgingly after having been "shamed" by its very public success under the direction of the SDIO.[citation needed] Its continued success was cause for considerable political in-fighting within NASA due to it competing with their "home grown" Lockheed Martin X-33/VentureStar project. Pete Conrad priced a new DC-X at $50 million, cheap by NASA standards, but NASA decided not to rebuild the craft in light of budget constraints.[16] Instead, NASA focused development on the Lockheed Martin VentureStar which it felt answered some criticisms of the DC-X, specifically the airplane-like landing of the VentureStar, which many NASA engineers preferred over the vertical landing of the DC-X. Just a few years later, the repeated failure of the Venturestar project, especially the composite LH2 (liquid hydrogen) tank, led to program cancellation.[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

SpaceX started off based on a DARPA proposal/challenge too right? Or at least the DARPA challenge for re-usable rockets aligned well with SpaceX's demonstrable success.

hoppp 2y ago

They wanted to go to mars and tried buying russian rockets first, but they were too expensive so they started building them. Nothing to do with Darpa, at least I dont find any relations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

Xmd5a 2y ago

>In a post-accident report, NASA's Brand Commission blamed the accident on a burnt-out field crew who had been operating under on-again/off-again funding and constant threats of outright cancellation. The crew, many of them originally from the SDIO program, were also highly critical of NASA's "chilling" effect on the program, and the masses of paperwork NASA demanded as part of the testing regimen.[citation needed] >NASA had taken on the project grudgingly after having been "shamed" by its very public success under the direction of the SDIO.[citation needed] Its continued success was cause for considerable political in-fighting within NASA due to it competing with their "home grown" Lockheed Martin X-33/VentureStar project. Pete Conrad priced a new DC-X at $50 million, cheap by NASA standards, but NASA decided not to rebuild the craft in light of budget constraints.[16] Instead, NASA focused development on the Lockheed Martin VentureStar which it felt answered some criticisms of the DC-X, specifically the airplane-like landing of the VentureStar, which many NASA engineers preferred over the vertical landing of the DC-X. Just a few years later, the repeated failure of the Venturestar project, especially the composite LH2 (liquid hydrogen) tank, led to program cancellation.[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X