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FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX's Next Starship Orbital Launch (futurism.com)
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The FAA is still awaiting the report that will detail the steps SpaceX will have to implement before it can try to launch its Starship again.

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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Knowing him, Musk is behind all the safety flaws of the last launch. The engineers were probably very aware of the issues, but Musk told them to go ahead because obviously he knows better.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    And it's pissing me off because Starship itself is an innovative new idea but he's gonna end up driving it into the ground before it even has its first real mission. I've been waiting 35 years for somebody to attempt to go to Mars since I was 5, and I'd like to still see at least ONE human landing before I die.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Republicans have traditionally been the party of "regulation doesn't work, elect me and I can prove it to you".

    Maybe Musk is just taking the logical counter-part to this "regulation doesn't work, put me in charge of a heavily regulated company and I can prove it to you".

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    He also drove it to be created in the first place.

    Musk is a complete asshole - I have to mention this in every comment where I say something even remotely positive about Musk or the downvote brigade is even bigger than it otherwise will be - but his "just try this new thing and see what happens" approach to engineering is the secret sauce that has made SpaceX into the behemoth pushing spaceflight where it is today. Sure, it means they screw up a lot. But otherwise they'd be just another Blue Origin.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Truish. I would say his money is the secret sauce. He can throw enough of it at something to actually see it through to testing. Him being a space guy is a miracle. He could have easily skipped SpaceX and gone straight to dicking around with social media platforms.

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