Not a big fan of Musk in other ways. Big fan of what his rockets can do.
please....
Go SpaceX!
Why would anyone give any credence to such a foul worded sophmoric article.
Lets see who gets to Mars first, Musk or NASA.
Wow— these clowns don’t know diddly about “apace.”
“Congress pumps pork money to NASA in omnibus budget”
March 22, 2018
Robert Zimmerman
“The omnibus budget that Congress plans to pass this week for 2018 gives NASA $20.7 billion, significantly more than requested and funding almost every pork project Congress could conceive of, including a second mobile launcher for SLS.”
The budget gives SLS and Orion more than $3 billion, funds all the Earth science and education projects the Trump administration wished to cut, as well as WFIRST, which the Trump administration wants to cancel because of cost overruns. In general, the NASA budget is a microcosm of the entire spending bill, which does nothing to cut any program anywhere, including Obamacare and a number of liberal programs that the Republicans have repeatedly promised to shut down, until they are in a position to do so. Then they act like leftist Democrats and fund everything.”
Too disrespectful of his dad!
This guy is an idiot. $70 mil to NASA is nothing, they blow that much on a toilet seat.
What Musk has done with SpaceX on a shoestring budget is nothing short of miraculous.
My proposal is 100,000 Testes D size model rocket engines wrapped with duct tape. And it would create jobs.
Rather than giving him any more taxpayer money, his assets should be seized and auctioned to pay back at least a fraction of what was already squandered.
SpaceX is a scam like the perpetual Vehicle car of past time. Acknowledge the current design problems, use the tests for publicity, then switch to a NEW design with NEW funding.
Sucker the funders or the Govt deep pockets.
Additionally, Elon Musk bans older workers, illegal yes, but he keeps the younger naive gullible workers to not question the scam. Your retirement tax money at work, scamming.
Two years ago landing a single Falcon 9 first stage was the greatest thing since Buck Rogers. Now, landing two out of three stages simultaneously in a brand new configuration is a giant failure?
The SLS system, run by NASA, was not mentioned in the article. How are they at spending taxpayer money?
NASA wants to waste tens of billions on SLS despite proven SpaceX Falcon Heavy
It seems NASA is much better at wasting taxpayer money than SpaceX is.
If Musk’s BFR’s script seems oddly familiar, that’s because it is. Previously, SpaceX said it would change the heavy-lift rocket game with its Falcon Heavy – a rocket that launched for the first time in February – but this Disney-esque storyline may not pan out as imagined. Not only did the Falcon Heavy’s core rocket booster crash into the ocean on its inaugural launch, but its for-show Tesla Roadster payload also overshot Mars’ orbit and could collide with something in space years down the road.
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The author is an ignorant asshole with Musk Derangement Syndrome.
The second stage purposely depleted its propellant to see how far out it could go. It was more successful than planned.
The author of this article is an idiot. A spacecraft traveling into the outer reaches of the solar system has ZERO chance of “colliding with something else in space years down the road.” Even the chances of it encountering space dust is nil. Does the author realize how vast space is?
He seems to have a hot poker up his butt about Musk and he should be honest as to why.
Space X has already proven that their designs work.
ULA has yet to begin a ‘recoverable’ first stage test.
Bezos is a monopolist, and cannot be anything else in any endeavor of his.
The engines of the Space X BFR are just more of what already works. Simple. Easy.
Of course, NASA is whining about getting back into the business, after an 8 year or more hiatus. Which to me means that they have to be designing for a while longer, while Space X marches on.
Musk is the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum. Everything he has accomplished has come at the expense of taxpayers. He knows how to work the system.
Just retool the Saturn V already!
Better than f’in’ NASA. Maybe he’ll provide vacations to Venus for the political class (see “The Marching Morons,” Cyril Kornbluth). That would be f’in’ swell. But Mars will do.
The pro-Musk arguments seem to boil down to “Space X is much better than NASA” - but the upcoming bankruptcy and collapse of Tesla is going to deflate his cult of personality.
He crashed last Sunday on “Billions.”