SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      11 months ago

      Falcon 9 is the most reliable rocket in the world and it used to explode like this too. It’ll be 5-10 years of successful unmanned flights before anyone rides on this rocket.

      • Neato@kbin.social
        411·
        11 months ago

        Was NASA exploding rockets this frequently when they pioneered all of this decades ago? It only took NASA 8 years to go from first entering space to landing on the moon. SpaceX is nowhere close to that and they’ve been launching rockets for 17 years.

          • Neato@kbin.social
            35·
            11 months ago

            Damn you clearly know nothing about technological development. Elon stands on the shoulders of all those who gave their lives in the past. He benefits from all the safety regulations.

            And still with all of that. The tens of billions of dollars the government hands out to him. And more than twice the time of the Space Race he had accomplished so little. How many successful rockets did NASA develop in that time? A lot more than SpaceX.

        • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
          11·
          11 months ago

          Different design processes and NASA has to appease Congress who likes to cut funding if a rocket blows up.

          But the Design-build-test-break-redesign-etc process that SpaceX uses is cheaper, quicker, and gives more data.