Those are some amazing fairings if they increase the cost by more than 50%!

That in the space business is more important who you know that what you know?

NASA pays way more than the stated rate, in some cases ridiculously more.

Just look up the deals and do the numbers.

Sure, passenger earth to earth travel with rockets makes no sense.

No matter how good your tech, a rocket is still a small capsule on top of an explosion. There are hard limits to your reliability, and a full explosion is always in the cards.

I didn’t said they’re Theranos, I said SpaceX to this day isn’t saving any costs on reusable boosters, and it’s price reduction is suspiciously consistent with price dumping (charging NASA up to 4x the rated price, and using that money to subsidize their commercial launches).

This wouldn’t be even be a first for SpaceX, that used NASAs money to buy SolarCity’s “Solar Bonds”, and then got their money back when Tesla acquired SolarCity.

I’m not even American, so probably no.

But when you only pick people from select companies, and leave other well known competitors out of it, something tells me those companies will get the short end of the stick when it comes to new regulations.

And yet we haven’t seen real evidence that they aren’t tripping on the same rock

According to Musk we all have tesla robotaxis that pay themselves and crewed missions to mars launch in less than 2 years.

Curiously, if you average what SpaceX charges in government + commercial launches, you get a number that’s a bit higher than the rest of it’s competitors. Almost as if certain claims of price dumping hold water!

> These are the people all the experts in space travel report to

And yet Shotwell sounds completely unaware of the basics of space in every public appearance.

If that doesn’t scream regulatory capture to you, nothing else will.

> Can you explain how reusing rockets rather than just tossing them in an ocean is “just a marketing stunt”?

Simple, if refurbishing those boosters costs more than new boosters, recovering them is just a cool stunt.

EDIT: Don’t worry about the downvotes, I’m totally aware that being even remotely critical of Elon Musk gets you downvoted to hell on this sub.

But they don’t have the flashy Spacex marketing with everyone celebrating two boosters landing in parallel, and the video cutting before people realize it’s just a marketing stunt that saved 0 dollars.

The last one on the right is missing, check his nose, you don’t want the Homer Simpson syndrome!