SpaceX failure

Damocles said:
Nah, the Falcon 9 is a reliable rocket. The one that exploded was an experimental one in the testing phase, it hasn't ever gotten to the point that it would carry humans.

And, BTW, so did Columbia and Challenger... but those catastrophically failed with humans aboard.
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You can add Apollo 1 which burned 3 astronauts to death.
 
FastLane said:
Or maybe they should put how many successful launches with Dragon space crafts. Or how Musk is flying an astronaut into space for 21 million less than the Russians were charging.
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But that has nothing to do with what you said. You insinuated it was dangerous to go up in Russian rockets because of all the fatalities. The fact is, the Russian space program has not killed any astronauts since about the 1960s when space rocketry was still experimental and humans were on the steep part of the learning curve.
 
Damocles said:
Who then would contract with Elon, like they did with Martin Marietta. This just adds extra steps and groups of people we have to pay who then increase the costs. Let them train the astronauts, let Elon build the rockets.
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Wow. So it's just a coincidence that Trump's good buddy Elon has the most lucrative space contracts. Awesome.
 
Damocles said:
SpaceX Falcon 9 takes them reliably up to and returns them from the ISS. Unlike the Boeing Starliner or the Shuttles that seemed to increasingly blow up... Folks who think NASA was the shizmet in "building rockets" (contracting with Martin Marietta) always forget the ones that catastrophically failed with humans aboard.
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Boeing and Space X are latecomers to the game, and they piggybacked and benefited from the decades of testing and research on rocketry conducted by scientists under the auspices of NASA and the Russian space program, when the hard work was really being done.
 
Cypress said:
Boeing and Space X are latecomers to the game, and they piggybacked and benefited from the decades of testing and research on rocketry conducted by scientists under the auspices of NASA and the Russian space program, when the hard work was really being done.
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I agree. Then they got political and lazy. NASA has not done shit for decades. Idiot.
 
Cypress said:
Boeing and Space X are latecomers to the game, and they piggybacked and benefited from the decades of testing and research on rocketry conducted by scientists under the auspices of NASA and the Russian space program, when the hard work was really being done.
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The Republicans have been pushing to privatize all parts of government for decades now. They claim it's for efficiency, but it's really about pocketing profits off the US taxpayers.
 
Sailor said:
Obama gave SpaceX its first Govt contracts. Trump and Biden also. Another big fail from Mr. Never Served.
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Cypress said:
But that has nothing to do with what you said. You insinuated it was dangerous to go up in Russian rockets because of all the fatalities. The fact is, the Russian space program has not killed any astronauts since about the 1960s when space rocketry was still experimental and humans were on the steep part of the learning curve.
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That Russia admits to. Soyuz 11, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, who died on June 30, 1971,
 
Nordberg said:
The Muskovites on this board seem to think the increasingly difficult missions of NASA are the same as Musk sending rockets in shallow orbits. NASA invented much of rocketry and expanded scientific knowledge. They circled the globe in the beginning and, after a few missions, wound up on the moon. https://www.facebook.com/neildegras...s-a-mile-away-16-kilometerst/364365628378771/
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Musk is going to send Space X to the moon. Musk catches rockets with giant chop sticks and shoots them up again. Musk just rescued two astronauts from ISS.
 
Damocles said:
He had the contracts from Biden. So... Yeah. Talk to Biden's autopen, it must be part of the conspiracy you got there.
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Sure. SpaceX has been around for awhile. Are you denying that Trump helped him take a major step towards his dream of going to Mars?

Autopen? No doubt you believe Trump signed every pardon of his 1/6 terrorists by hand. LOL
 
FastLane said:
That Russia admits to. Soyuz 11, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, who died on June 30, 1971,
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Thanks for confirming and proving what I said. 50 to 60 years since a fatality, and none since space rocketry was in it's infancy.

So when you claimed it was dangerous to ride in Russian rockets, you were more than half a century out of date.

Cypress said:
To my knowledge, Russian spaceships haven't killed anyone in 50 to 60 years, and that was in the very early days of space rocketry when humans were still learning how to do it.
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Cypress said:
Thanks for confirming and proving what I said. 50 to 60 years since a fatality, and none since space rocketry was in it's infancy.

So when you claimed it was dangerous to ride in Russian rockets, you were more than half a century out of date.
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That Russia admits to. I'm sure even you will admit Russia isn't always truthful about things. BTW you said from the 1960s not from the 1970s.So no! I did not confirm what you said.
 
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