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Same here, that's why I posted the link. Anyway, I think SpaceX's engineers are extremely under pressure right now. These missions are extremely risky, everybo
by bontoJR 11y ago
Same here, that's why I posted the link.
Anyway, I think SpaceX's engineers are extremely under pressure right now. These missions are extremely risky, everybody knows how difficult is this field and I personally believe that the amount of pressure the team is facing, it's consistently increasing the potential risk of a failure.
SpaceX is a private company and, like all the other private companies in the earth, it has the goal to make money and make investors happy. Every single failure of the company is a big hit on the brand and a loss of millions and millions of dollars, this put the team under an excessive amount of pressure.
- secfirstmd 11y agoIt's strange to explain the postive feelings that I and I'm sure many others have here about SpaceX. I mean people have been saying how great it is for a private company to do this but at the end of the day nearly every NASA launch has been built by a private company. Yet somehow SpaceX and in particular, Elon Musk, has managed to do a great job of capturing the public excitement. When I started noticing a lot of my non-tech friends are talking about space and science (thank you Brian Cox, CERN etc!) again it gives me hope for the future. Perhaps its a generation thing, many of us in our 20s never really had those electrifying moments like a moon landing. Something just makes makes people really really want to see SpaceX succeed. Though let's hope this eventually translates into real investment at government levels once again.