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Starship's advanced design is said to have NASA officials "[bleep]ing the bed"
Interesting Engineering ^ | February 16, 2022 | Chris Young

Posted on 02/18/2022 8:45:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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SpaceX has NASA "Sh*tting The Bed" | February 18, 2022 | LaterClips
SpaceX has NASA

1 posted on 02/18/2022 8:45:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

WAY TO GO ELON!......................


2 posted on 02/18/2022 8:47:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m not surprised. The government is so risk adverse they overbuild everything.


3 posted on 02/18/2022 8:48:03 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: SunkenCiv

Meanwhile California is sure they can get their high speed train from Los Angeles to the moon (or maybe Pasadena) if they spend a couple of trillion dollars.


4 posted on 02/18/2022 8:48:36 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
The bogus environmental crap waged as lawfare is resulting in an earlier move to the Cape of SpaceX's Starship launch towers. The foundations for two of them are already in place and construction is unlikely to take as long as the first one (which went through iterations). Environmental lawfare in Germany is again slowing the opening and operation of the GigaBerlin plant, and has merely shown that "environmentalist" organizations are really just fronts for special interests.

5 posted on 02/18/2022 8:49:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

Elon needs to decouple from NASA.

They are going to drag him down with craziness like this:

https://qz.com/2046840/a-1-billion-space-suit-is-holding-up-nasas-2024-moon-landing/


6 posted on 02/18/2022 8:49:37 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SunkenCiv

While I’m intrigued, those numbers sound off... $2 billion vs. $1 million??


7 posted on 02/18/2022 8:50:21 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: SunkenCiv

NASA has always only been a conglomeration of government contractors.

SpaceX is owned by Elon Musk, private citizen. He cares 24/7 and works over 100 hours a week where as the govt only seems to want to try to care from 9-5/M-F.


8 posted on 02/18/2022 8:51:02 AM PST by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: SunkenCiv

NASA is very excited to see Starship succeed. They are already using the Falcon 9 for many of their launches.

It is Northrup Grumman, Boeing, and the Congressmen they own that are fearful of losing the billions in funding they have had for decades.


9 posted on 02/18/2022 8:51:21 AM PST by Renfrew
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

They mat have kids at home, or in college, they know there’s no rush, the jokers building space capability started taking their sweet time after Apollo — that was a program operating against a deadline.


10 posted on 02/18/2022 8:51:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Funny how pressure clears the mind and gets results when nothing else will.


11 posted on 02/18/2022 8:53:07 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: alancarp

“While I’m intrigued, those numbers sound off... $2 billion vs. $1 million??”

Indeed. Falcon 9 launches from Space X are about $50 million. Starship will cost more than that.


12 posted on 02/18/2022 8:53:10 AM PST by Renfrew
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To: SunkenCiv

This is the difference between GOVERNMENT and PRIVATE SECTOR doing the SAME thing with drastically different results.

Apply the results of this to EVERYTHING government does. It is the same lazy, shiftless, make-work crap that has ruined transportation, energy, healthcare, aviation, and everything else it has infested. The graft, career building, etc in government stagnates these projects while the private sector is predicated on delivering RESULTS.

Replace all of those extra-Constitutional, rights infringing, departments and agencies with IEEE/UL type private consortiums and let’s get our economy to do what it does best...


13 posted on 02/18/2022 8:53:51 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Only $1 million per launch. That’s about how much NASA pays for a hammer from Harbor Freight Tools.


14 posted on 02/18/2022 8:54:59 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (Democracy is two dead Democrats and a Republican voting who's brains are for dinner.)
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To: All

This guy is an innovator and business man.

He allows others to freely innovate and the Biden druids and deep state hate him for it.

Do not count out Tesla in the EV space.


15 posted on 02/18/2022 8:56:22 AM PST by rbmillerjr
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To: SunkenCiv
I want Elon Musk to succeed with SpaceX.

Remember, this is Elon Musk promoting SpaceX.

It should be take with a skeptical eye.

I would love for it to be true.

16 posted on 02/18/2022 8:56:50 AM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Competition does the same.


17 posted on 02/18/2022 8:56:52 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: SunkenCiv
early pre production image. :)


18 posted on 02/18/2022 8:58:43 AM PST by xp38
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To: Delta 21

Actually they spend most of the 9-5/M-F surfing porn sites, sleeping, playing computer games.....


19 posted on 02/18/2022 8:59:14 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SunkenCiv

We’ll see


20 posted on 02/18/2022 9:01:38 AM PST by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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