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Hate all you want to Elon, you still need to credit to credit due.SpaceX did awesome Job.
by v3ss0n 2y ago
Hate all you want to Elon, you still need to credit to credit due.SpaceX did awesome Job.
- madeofpalk 2y agoI don't think Elon really had that much to do with this.
- double051 2y agoBesides making any of this possible?
- SecretDreams 2y agoWith his bare hands and mind, no less!
- amelius 2y agoWhile running his other two companies (Tesla, X), being in charge of DOGE, and making political statements on stages everywhere, AND taking care of his 14 children ... I don't think he was actually involved in this. Or maybe he was there in the mission control room, physically, just for kicks, and annoying the hell out of the engineers. Now that I find somewhat likely.
- theultdev 2y agoYeah must be all of his companies have good employees and all his competitors companies have terrible employees. Nothing to do with the CEO or the company culture. Sort of like Apple, Jobs was probably just annoying his engineers all the time and contributed nothing. /s
- doug_durham 2y agoThat is exactly what is going on. Boeing doesn't have Gwenn Shotwell. She's the one making SpaceX operate.
- redeeman 2y agoand why dont they?
- eagerpace 2y agoNot only did they deliver the commercial crew contract faster than Boeing, they did it for a much lower cost.
- indoordin0saur 2y agoBefore he took his recent (regrettable) turn he did pour his heart and soul (and personal fortune) into SpaceX for over a decade. If it weren't for SpaceX we'd be relying on the incompetent monstrosities of Boeing or ULA.
- ta1243 2y agoIt seemed to all start going wrong with "pedo guy". Before then Musk was doing great things at Tesla and SpaceX. After that he started getting more and more unhinged, leading through to buying twitter, then trying to get out of it, then doubling down.
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- ta1243 2y ago> I think the republican position is more nuanced than that. To summarize: 'all children are special and important but any life changing decisions like joining the army or getting a tattoo are best left for later in life. I didn't realise republicans were against genital mutilation.
- zuminator 2y ago> It's quiet amusingy that up ubtill recently in the usa it was easier to get surgery to turn you to your 'real' gender compared to buying yourself some alcohol. That's not true at all. Kids can't just get surgery on their own. They need parental consent at the very least. Interestingly, one survey indicated that 97% of minors receiving breast reduction surgery were not transgender kids, but cis male kids with gynecomastia. In your hand-wringing about life-changing decisions, would you deny these boys the treatment they need and instead force them to keep their breast growth all throughout adolescence? And it's certainly easier to get parental consent to consume alcohol than it is to get elective gender-affirming surgery. The total number of people getting GAS in the USA in one year has never exceeded ~13,000. That's for all ages. Meanwhile about 10 million young people under 21 per year drink alcohol, of whom about 10% were able to obtain it from their own home, which in some states is perfectly legal.
- robotnikman 2y agoThis right here. It was 99% the work of all the amazing engineers and support staff at SpaceX, all who deserve more credit.
- fixprix 2y agoHe had everything to do with it. If you can't tell by now, he wants to be involved in everything. Recognizing good ideas from bad ones and empowering the right engineers to do it is everything. Look at any of SpaceX's competitors or even other countries space programs to see what poor leadership looks like.
- carabiner 2y agoIn general, we selectively credit the engineers when a musk company has a success, then blame musk when there's a failure. So when Teslas have quality issues, we don't blame the manufacturing engineers and technicians; instead, we blame Musk who hand assembled every Tesla out there, right?
- AngryData 2y agoWe know Tesla has the engineers needed to produce quality designs, but it is management that decided to cheap out on both production and quality control, and doesn't make parts easily available for repairs, which is part of the decision and policies Musk is in charge of. With SpaceX it could go on both sides just because the engineering for spacecraft designs and rockets is not really a solved problem unlike 95% of automobile design, but management could still be the biggest problem with SpaceX. Of course that is going to be hard to see or quantify without being part of SpaceX management.
- carabiner 2y agoThose were just two random examples. You're neglecting all of the good things about Tesla. The global charger network and plug standard, the push for automation. You think Musk had no part in those? If you want to see bad management in rocketry, look at SpaceX's competitors.
- nailer 2y agoElon Musk is the CEO and founder of SpaceX
- ckeck 2y agoDon't do that
- bsdice 2y agoCompared to the very first test, everything worked better and looked greased. From the HD drone footage (via Starlink I presume), to the fast arriving boats, quick hypergolic fuel leak checks, roping up, loading onto ship, retrieving crew, going home. Only thing missing really is landing on land and crew offboarding just like that by themselves.
- fracus 2y agoWhat does one have to do with the other?
- timewizard 2y ago> Hate all you want to Elon, you still need to credit to credit due. Under no circumstances will I agree that "Elon rescued" anyone or anything. The guy has a fetish to be seen as a rescuer. It's unseemly. > SpaceX did awesome Job. Fulfilling a contract they've executed several times before? slow clap
- stellar678 2y ago> Fulfilling a contract they've executed several times before? slow clap More than you can say for the Boeing launch that took the astronauts up last summer.
- bpodgursky 2y agoYes in some sense, but they did provide additional rides to cover Boeing's shortfall on a short timeline. The ability to ramp up services on short notice is not flexibility traditional space companies offer. Ex, if NASA begged Boeing for an extra SLS launch this year, they simply could not do it.
- class3shock 2y agoYes, it's all thanks to Elon, not the tens of thousands of SapceX, NASA, and subcontractor personnel that actually did all of the work.