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.

  • 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.