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Privatising space exploration was a mistake

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your article is from June. Let's see if there's been any updates since...

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/yes-nasa-really-could-bring-starliners-astronauts-back-on-crew-dragon/

Oh, it's increasingly looking like SpaceX will bail the astronauts out and bring them home. Boeing is a fucking failure of a company. That it's so intertwined with the criminality of the American state is just chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, you know you suck when the dude who built the Cybertruck has to save you

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The big difference between SpaceX and Tesla is that SpaceX has to perform to NASA technical and safety requirements. They can't just shit out crap hardware because the asshole-in-chief wanted to play automotive engineer. SpaceX has to make stuff that actually works. It also helps that there's someone competent running things day-to-day there instead of the aforementioned asshole-in-chief.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Dragon capsule had to successfully complete both an in flight abort test and several uncrewed trips to the ISS before NASA trusted it to carry astronauts, the Starliner skipped both.