Comment on Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn't?

pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was not the claim, the claim was on the actual space frontier. And in that regard Elon Musk has not achieved anything.

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  • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they have managed to set a trend for filling the night sky with shitty little low orbit satellites chewing up the ozone layer

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    • orrk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      and of course oversaturating LEO, because while they will come down eventually, those dead satellites will stay up there for a decade or more in some cases

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. Elon Musk didn’t achieved shit.
    2. NASA hasn’t been achieving much lately either.
    3. Comparing current SpaceX with peak NASA is like comparing an infant with an adult.

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    • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In this case, should we measure maturity in the amount of money burned?

      where are we at?

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. The shuttle was both rocket and spacecraft, obviously controllable for landing The Shuttle SRBs were reusable. They were not controllable for landing, but nonetheless they did land in a state that allowed reuse.

  Musk achieved powered flight for landing his rockets, but even NASA had a long history of research with VTOL powered rockets that were not used for spaceflight.

  He can certainly claim to have perfected it, but he certainly didn’t invent it.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He can certainly claim to have perfected it, but he certainly didn’t invent it.

    He did jack all, SpaceX engineering teams did everything.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, yes. That is true.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you actually watched the video?

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