STARSHIP!...................
Posted on 11/02/2022 6:52:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
Falcon Heavy’s side boosters have landed – marking the 150th and 151st recovery of orbital class rockets
VIDEO AT LINK...........
Update — Successful landing.
Those landings always amaze me. So simple in appearance but highly complex engineering went into this success.
If the “Alien” movie franchise were starting today, the billionaire funding the missions would be named “Rusk” or “Lusk” instead of “Wayland.”
What an amazing accomplishment. So, the government has spent billions and billions on NASA, and it takes a computer geek like Elon to pull this off!
Hey, Elon think you can work on few other problems nobody can solve?
-$31 trillion in government debt and rapidly growing
-Millions and millions of illegal border crashers
-Highest inflation in forty years
-Out-of-control support for the rogue state of Ukraine and clown Zelensky
-Stolen elections
-Insolvent social security & medicare
There's more -- much more if anyone wants to see the list.
Indeed makes one wonder what was NASA thinking all these years.
Global warming, the environment, and DIVERSITY, doncha know…
Meanwhile, their Artemis Mission to the Moon has yet to get off the ground…
Some things never change
“Indeed makes one wonder what was NASA thinking all these years.”
Just another lazy, non-creative bureaucracy whose main mission is self preservation.
Agree
The raising of the Big Unit is at 9:25, what a machine — SpaceX and Elon, not just the Falcon Heavy.
150th and 151st (robotic AI) booster landings, in the fog. The core booster (which is structurally different, due to the need to carry the big payloads) went aloft as an expendible this time.
When ‘it’ (any ‘it’) looks easy you know you’re dealing with te best...
In a few years, the successful launch of the full stack Starship will signal the retirement of Falcon Heavy, and the title of world’s most powerful rocket, passed on to Starship.
STARSHIP!...................
NASA succumbed to The Iron Law of Bureaucracy decades ago.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy may be part but more often money was funneled to projects of those in power.
Welfare Obamacare..................................
anything to get reelected .
Both things work against getting anything significant done.
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