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Can't wait until they try to re-fly a SH. To me that is really the next big step forward. I am hopeful they will be attempting to land the Starship within 3-6 months. Hopefully they will be re-flying the entire system by the EOY. I am nervous that Starship will have to fly over...

Blue has existed for 25 years and they are yet to put anything in to orbit as far as a commercial payload from a paying customer. Yes, they have contracts to do certain things in the future but so up to now, Bezos has been footing the bill for almost everything. The whole company has to be...

I am not sure Musk understand what a dangerous mine field it is to play in politics. T is a very dangerous person to count on as a friend. Just look at his 1st administration and how many people he turned on, who were the best of the best and now he hates. He has also become public enemy...

Your comment is completely void of any facts. Sure Musk is a very weird dude. No disagreement from me about that but facts are facts, if we eliminate personalities. The issue on Flight 7 was with the 2nd stage NOT the 1st Stage. The 1st stage with the 33 engines has worked flawlessly...

Exactly what I was thinking. I would of loved a comparison to what is going to happen when they de-orbit the ISS. I always have issues with the words and phrases like: could, should, have the potential, etc. I also wonder if it would of just been better to let it fall back to the earth in...

That means is at least 400 2nd stages built for the Falcon family of rockets. With over 100 last year alone. From a production & QC stand point that is very impressive. Other companies are trying to grab a share of SX's launch market but being able to produce that many rocket engines and...

I believe SX has a few more rockets almost ready to go. I remember hearing they had something like 30 cameras on board for launch #7. As long as they have a clear idea of what happened, I think a fix should be in the works right away. A fuel leak seems like an easy problem to fix. Figuring...

Puppy kisses fix everything.

Congrats Blue for reaching orbit. Can't wait to see where Blue is in 12 months and Jan of 26. That will say a lot about them. Is Blue still just Jeff's side hobby or will they be a real aerospace company/player? It will be interesting to see if they deliver actual results. Not so...

I just hope Blue hasn't gone from extremely methodological and conservative to push as hard as possible and fly as quickly as possible. I mean it seems like doing a few maybe 3 or 4, full wet dress rehearsals. where they fully fuel the NG and take the count down all the way to 0 but don't...

Take a step back, take a few deep breaths and say, it is all going to be okay. Then figure out it was just delayed 1 day. More deep breaths. Let happy thoughts of puppies and fresh baked muffins fill you mind. No one is trying to mess with you.

SpaceX has done some rather amazing. 134 Falcon 9 launches in 2024. That also means they produced/manfactured 134 2nd stages for the F9 rocket. Or one 2nd stage every 2.7 days a rather amazing production feat. Yes they had a few issues but considering how many flights it is still remarkable...

If you never attempted an orbital flight having been in business for over 25 years, YES technically Blue has never failed and has a perfect orbital flight record. If you're being fair, it really is a much worse failure via a lack of courage to even try. Musk & SX reached orbit for the 1st...

Who do you think will fly 1st? New Glenn or Starship Flight 7? New Glenn or Starship Flight 8? I would bet both SX's 7 & 8 fly 1st. I think after the NG hot fire test, they'll bring back into the garage and give it a massive check out, to make sure nothing came loose. If they uncover...

What is 100 million years between good friends?