87% of the world's tonnage to orbit in Q1
Scary to think where we would be in the space race without SpaceX, while billions were being wasted by NASA contractors every year to achieve very little.
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87% of the world's tonnage to orbit in Q1
Scary to think where we would be in the space race without SpaceX, while billions were being wasted by NASA contractors every year to achieve very little.
Nasa was never efficient.
It was all a political move.
What is that called? Publicity stunt?
What's crazy is that the people there are plenty smart. When I was a software engineer my company did some contract work for NASA and I felt like a caveman talking to some of the PhDs there especially when the conversation drifted to physics, math and aerospace stuff. So there's just poor leadership and vision.
I guess not unlike many of the very smart people getting paid to do very little in big tech...
Its just the bureaucracy.
Thats what really steers them in the wrong direction.
Amazing how different the results can look when you ask the right question. Up until SpaceX the question was: 'can we get something to space?'. The question SpaceX asks is: 'can we build an assembly line to get a regular flow of equipment to space?'
That’s wild
Seems like it should be bigger news
It this list full? Don't see there ESA, for example, which has it's own launch capabilities. And do NASA and US Air Force now fully use commercial contracts to launch sattelites, 0% their own launches?
Hmmm.. not sure, haha, my source is twitter :P
Fun clip of skeptical European aerospace leaders in 2013 blowing off SpaceX, saying they are "selling a dream"
To be fair, SpaceX is still very far from the 5M dollar/launch promise that prompted that clip. From what I recall, it's still a factor 20 or so off.
Doesn't mean that this clip is not a testament to the arrogance of some people in charge.