"our"?
you don't provide 20k a year in taxes - which is what is being spent in your name
so stfu wook
SpaceX failure
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you don't provide 20k a year in taxes - which is what is being spent in your name
so stfu wook
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.
Up until the Ukraine war, NASA routinely let our astronauts hitch rides on Soyuz rockets to the ISS.
Dutch Uncle
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Our tax dollars at work.
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YakketySpewda isn't worth responding to.
Nomad
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You have no business running your mouth in front of adults, Yakky.
Yakuda
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And pigs like you belong in a sty. Shit the fuck up shit stain
Sure, when they were inventing and testing the science. They got much better and the rockets almost stopped having problems. Musk inherited all the history and science that NASA had.
Do you know that this weeks rocket explosion has no connection to our first rockets? NASA was using 1950s and 60s technology. When a NASA rocket blew up, we had serious congressional investigations to show what went wrong and how to improve them.
NASA was not trying to build a rocket that can take folks to Mars, land, and then also take off as an entire rocket.
But then you want to pretend that it is all equal.
T. A. Gardner
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Space X has done far more to advance space flight in the last decade than NASA...
T. A. Gardner
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In the 50's and 60's the government (NASA) and the US aerospace industry was pushing the edge of the envelope to develop all sorts of missile technology. NASA was using military rockets and missiles without the warheads modified for the space program at that time. Even today, most of the launch systems NASA uses are based on military technology from that period just improved a bit.
The Atlas V in use today traces its origins back to the mid-50's with the USAF program to build an ICBM. The concurrent, larger, Titan missile was only retired in 2005. That's two examples of where NASA got its technology. Space X's rockets are a whole new concept and not without their flaws.
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MAGAts are soooo brave behind their keyboards. LOL
Check your Depends, Yak. It looks like you're carrying a load.
And forget who rescued our astronauts....
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.
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.
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.Space X should put this on the cover of their investor prospectus.
No, thanks, his explode
Indeed or the astronauts we burned up on a launch pad.
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.