Kimmo Kannala

The contracts with SpaceX are different.

SpaceX is paid after positive results.

Old dudes are paid also for failures and delays.

"So did Space X."

So you have difficulty in reading.

" Do you have the numbers they blew on R&D? "

I just gave the numbers.

"And Space X owes NASA money for the use of propriety technology that NASA shared with them."

LOL!

"Contractors are part of capitalism."

Contractors made Apollo.

We do not need enemies when we have certain kind of friends.

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Nonsense. And I'm not interested in Tesla. if their private profits are high enough, they do what they wish.

But about the topic:
Look at the numbers. Old government contractors waste tens of billions of tax payer money and deliver far less.

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Incorrect.

NASA astronauts had plenty of options to come back sooner.

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back if they wanted. They agreed to wait for next planned ride.

Sojuz was also at ISS and it came back Sep23.

SX Freedom was launched Sep28 and it took Boeing astronaust back Mar18 2025.

Also SX Resilience was flown when those Boeing astronaust were on the ISS. So plenty of chances to come back.

It was negotiated between those astronauts and NASA.

Boeing Starliner was launched Jun5 2024 and it failed to be able to return its 2 astronauts.

SX Edeavour was docked in ISS between Mar4 2024 and Oct25 and it had two extra seats for emergency needs to take Boeing astronauts

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Dragon2 is for up to 7 astronauts and for 10 days in space.

Sojuz is anyway the only alternative for NASA, more expensive and more polluting.

SpaceX is not implementing Apollo#2.
They are doing 10* more with ~1% of the cost.

Just compare how Orion has just managed to perform one test flight around the Moon and it has cost many tens of billions.

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Investigations were closed after investigating.
Normal procedures.

1) It was idiotic to let Elon to do government stuff.

2) It was idiotic for Elon to go do it.

3) So far there is no evidence that he worked to "protect" SpaceX.

Fact 3 does not make 1 or 2 void.

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With valid questions like:
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SpaceX has been the only company not exploding or crashing every rocket after launch.

And simply the most reliable. So far.

Hopefully Blue Origin will deliver some competition.

The structural integrity of SH booster (and SS) needs pressure in the propellant tanks. So if COPV exploded outside of a oxidizer tank the pressure of the oxidizer tank made it burst open outwards.

AFAIK, they planned to do pressure tests. In those they do not use Methane or pure oxygen bc safety.

vs the ozone layer.

And China use poison as a rocket fuel and continue to drop rocket stages on populated areas.

SpaceX has less nice things as well, like Elon and the idea of 42 000 starlink satellites.

Attachment show SpaceX vs the next guy. Pick up your ride?

SpaceX is the company pioneering in making human spaceflight safer, cheaper and more environment friendly since about Saturn5&Apollo.

The Space Shuttle was insanely wastefull, polluting and deadly.
SLS is similarly horrible. And also ULA and Ariane use Aluminium as the fuel and it is disastrous

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Starship does not get any direct tax payer (NASA) funding. But it gets tiny bit NASA funding via HLS contract. When SpaceX performs and succeeds in a task mentioned in the contract, they get some money.

They do not get any money for failures.
So, you are wrong.

Things only grasping funding:

Starship is trying something that no-one has ever tried before. It is trying to make yeat another revolution of rocketry by reusing the whole second stage of a rocket, while being also a spacecraft.

It is insanely hard thing to do. It will take more years to make it work as intended.

SpaceX manufactures the most reliable rockets on this planet.
And they are the only ones that can be launched multiple times "without explosion".

Starship is under development and under testing.
Test failures are normal in development and testing phase.

It has worked very well many times already.

I wonder how inefficient and corrupted they would make SpaceX.

Exactly!

SX or Elon was too optimistic vs schedule. And NASA was too confident vs what was promised.

SX just made too good looking deal.

SS v1 could have been stripped down to work as HLS hull and as a dumb rocket, but SX prioritized otherwise.

If SX had been in a race to moon, they would have planned otherwise.

HLS does not need reusable 2nd stage.

Nonsense.

BO builds a dumb rocket, SX builds a reusable spacecraft that can land on planets that have atmosphere.

You can not compare them.

SX focus on landing related technology. They do not plan to stay in orbit yet, even when they can.

They vented out the rest of the fuel and proceeded to test landing related items.

They were not interested in staying in orbit.

AFAIK they have scheduled "many orbits" -flight mid 2026.

I'm afraid it takes 10+ years before the next guy tries to land a second stage of a rocket.

You miss the fact that also SaturnV has suffered hundreds of failures in testing.

Wrong 100%.

It took 20 years for BO to get NG done.
They have now launched two times.
One test payload and one real payload.

But it is unknown how far NG is from its original planned capability etc. Hopefully it can lift the lander.

Nonsensical.

Every time Starship reached near orbital speed, it could have stayed in orbit uf it had not been set to not to.

And they do iterative development. It means they test early and use test findings to do a new version of the thing. It seems to be pretty fast way to get forward.

Elon has fallen on his head after saying "best part is no part"?

But one has to feed those raptors I guess.