It’s their 7th launch and they’re still fighting issues with keeping the fuel where it should be. Elon has successfully created a machine that can kill any number of astronauts in sub-orbit and land to do it all over again. How is anyone not getting this? I’ll never forgive him for taking back intellect on space travel to the 1950’s .
The Apollo project launched the roughly comparable Saturn V rockets 13 times. None of the launched rockets exploded. None of the launched¹ missions led to any loss of life.
The Saturn V was made at a time when all the computing power on the planet put together was less than a middling-power smart phone of five years ago. The rockets and modules were controlled by computers that had less computing horsepower than an average USB charger. And it was more of an experimental rocket system than anything the Apartheid Manchild’s company has put out thus far.
Space Karen’s company has launched their pretentiously-named “Starship” system seven times. Four of them ended up exploding, and one of them broke up the launch pad so badly that it endangered life and limb and did damnable violence to a fragile ecosystem with endangered species.
And yet the fanbois trumpet the “success” of a mission that has not yet actually made it to LEO, has not done any of the things it was supposed to have had done in 2022 for NASA’s Artemis mission and going back to the moon.
And this turd wants to send people to MARS!?
¹ Important word here. Re-read it before you “well akshuallee” me.
Wikipedia tells me the Saturn V development cost, in 2023 dollars, was about 50 billion. Starship, as of 2023, cost about five billion.
These are test flights. They are done to find problems. They will fail. It’s a totally different approach to the Apollo program.
They literally are blowing up rockets like there is no tomorrow and call it “a process”, and then there are guys like you who literally believe that crap.
SpaceX still hasn’t been able to come to even 10% of what the Saturn V has done, and they have the knowledge of the Saturn V, they have computational power that is beyond what the Saturn V Engineers could even dream of, they have the newer and better materials, they have the newer and better construction method, they have all the countless advantages that the Saturn V engineers didn’t have.
And what do they do? Blow up a launch pad because adding a flame diverter would be too expensive. Blow up a banana over the Indian ocean. Blow up rocket after rocket, and APPLAUDE AND CHEER, like WTF? They set goals of *getting off the launchpad, anything else is extra"
This is what billions of tax payer dollars has given you, the guy who will be in charge of government efficiency, lol
Meanwhile there is blue origin too and oh look, no boom! It. Just. Worked.
elon musk is a scammer