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To: cgbg

First, you have to go to what SpaceX defines as their mission on these test flights.
They have CONSISTENTLY said their goal is not perfection, it’s FAIL FAST - it’s a different engineering philosophy, thus they move 10x faster and get results 20x less expensive than NASA.

Educate yourself on the cost to orbit for SpaceX Falcon9 (249 and counting successful missions to orbit and landing) vs NASA. Literally they are approaching 1000 times less costly than NASA.

And folks like you just throw rocks.


40 posted on 11/18/2023 8:58:56 AM PST by BereanBrain
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To: BereanBrain

I am ready to cheer and congratulate them when the time is right—when they put men on the moon and on Mars.

Until then—it is all premature press releases and cheerleading.


42 posted on 11/18/2023 9:00:45 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: BereanBrain

Just for your awareness, that individual insists that NASA never landed men on the Moon. Teddy Roosevelt had him nailed.


44 posted on 11/18/2023 9:07:45 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BereanBrain

“Literally they are approaching 1000 times less costly than NASA.”

And when Starship finally works, it will GREATLY reduce cost per ton to orbit.


55 posted on 11/18/2023 9:38:22 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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