Recent content by Curtis Quick

My spirits soared with SN5!! It was a wonderful flight! A lot of us had been waiting for a long time for this. Good job SpaceX! Now, what about SN6? Will they stick a nose cone on it and send it up even higher?

It looks like it was a mistake in the testing procedure and not a design problem. The upper tank was being filled while the tank below appears to be empty (as there was no frost covering the lower tank to indicate that it was also pressurized with liquid nitrogen. Also, I don't think the lower...

Clearly, Boeing has close connections to key decision makers in both NASA and the US Congress that SpaceX does not. And that clearly made a great difference in the bid. Boeing knew that whatever they bid, they would be chosen as one of the providers. SpaceX did not have this assurance. So SpaceX...

AFAIK, there has not been a land landing test for Crew Dragon, and I don't think NASA has any interest in having Crew Dragon test landing on land. Where did you hear that testing a land landing was a requirement?

NASA did not want to have Crew Dragon land propulsively. NASA also did not want to have landing legs protruding through holes in the Crew Dragon heat shield. Since the customer, NASA, said no, SpaceX did not feel the need to argue and keep pushing for propulsive landings for Crew Dragon. This...