Recent content by Philly

30th mission. Talk about the race between the tortoise and the hare. SX started out as an unknown small crazy rocket company against the giants of aerospace. SX is so far out in front of everyone else it seems like the "Old Space" companies will never be able to catch up. Even the other...

I am not hoping for any other aerospace company to fail but it would seem like expecting another rocket to magically work perfectly on it's 1st launch, seems to be delusional thinking. Considering BO has never put a single Kg into orbit, it really is kind of crazy thinking. They don't even...

Yeah, when the 1st few attempts at landing the SH and Starship result is explosions, does that trigger year long investigations? Seems likely considering the current pace.

Sorry but I don't think you fully understand, how NASA painted themselves into a corner with the Artemis program. They funded SLS and Orion. They didn't fund or properly plan for a Lunar lander. NOT SX's problem. Thus at some point they looked around and said hey we need a lander for...

Because they are test flights and SX pushes things to the point of failure sometimes. Knowing what you do know is fine but you really don't learn anything new A proper test flight, you're trying to find out what you don't know for sure. I have found most of the best "learning lessons" in...

I can imagine a similar topic being discussed in Europe about the New World before it was settled by Europeans (there were plenty of humans already in the NW). The Roanoke Colony, was a similar cautionary tale about a group that died. I believe the 1st explorers are going there to try to...

Seems like Elon is living rent free someone's head. I don't have any issues with NASA except it seems silly to throw away rockets after every launch in 2023. Wouldn't be surprised, nor should anyone else be surprised, if SX continues to uncover issues and have rockets blow up before...