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Moreover the two lost shuttles included human lives. Better to blow stuff up with demo payloads now before sending up large contracted payloads or worse human b
by bbatha 4mo ago
Moreover the two lost shuttles included human lives. Better to blow stuff up with demo payloads now before sending up large contracted payloads or worse human beings!
- p-e-w 4mo agoI couldn’t believe my ears when I first heard that the second ever flight of SLS was going to be crewed. It worked out in the end, but I can’t imagine being so confident in a new system, no matter how much money and brainpower has been spent to make it safe.
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- ajross 4mo ago> Better to [...] That's undeniably true. Nonetheless "Better than the shuttle, which sucked" isn't the design goal. The question is not even just "is it better to blow up 12 Starships?", which would probably still be true. It's "Why isn't Starship working yet?" and the implied "Maybe Starship sucks too?!".
- cwillu 4mo agoThey failed far more than 12 landings before they started reliably landing boosters, and people made the same “maybe this is a dumb idea” comments back then too.