SamanthaTemp [none/use name]

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  • I feel like you’re conflating Musks “goals” (occupy mars cringe) with the overall purpose of spacex. Just because Musk who literally only just purchased the company makes these out their promises he only does so to boost stock price for the company, but this doesn’t mean these are their main objectives. Spacex is literally a business with the sole purpose of selling boosters to countries with space programs like NASA. You should condemn the US government for not prioritizing space science in any capacity, but science = war and when you have Lockheed already hiring NASA facilities and scientists/ engineers to build war machines then there’s no incentive to really care about the science part.


  • Also you’ll be surprised how many of the engineers love the Soviets who also work at the company. I don’t know if you’re doing a bit but the space community is different there’s an actual sense of solidarity with one another and they take pride in any human achievement in space travel and unlike the US manufactured “space race” and whoever “won” they would all say humans first but Soviets second. So yeah don’t talk out your ass



  • Yeah but not without failures or trial and error. Do you think the Soviets just launched the one rocket they made for that mission and all was well? It was decades upon decades of research, trials, and years of experience that went into their space technology. Failure to launch is a much more common occurrence in rocket science than you’d expect there’s so many variables and criteria that has to go right before a launch is a successful one. It’s not just “I build rocket and it reaches space” that’s a very obtuse way of understanding how they work. It’s the reason there’s weeks to sometimes up to months of delays.