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At least the Chinese are willing to take the plunge into full reusability, even when there's a very real risk that SpaceX's Starship design might not work or might fail. That, to me, is real courage

If the James Webb Space Telescope 🔭, which was majorly funded by the US (in other words, technically a US satellite 🛰️ with substancial European input) could launch on an Ariane 5 rocket, and the US was cool with it, I don't see why launching this telescope 🔭 on a US launch vehicle (Falcon 9 or...

I'm so much surprised that a whole lot of Ars commenters are so astoundingly ignorant of how things are done at SpaceX. You think Elon Musk is just a figurehead CEO who knows nothing? This is truly very hilarious! For so many of the commenters here, their hatred of Elon Musk drives them to...

You And you conveniently chose to forget that there would be no SpaceX without Elon Musk. He founded SpaceX. Trying to disconnect Elon Musk from SpaceX is an exercise in futility, mate. Without the engineering-first and designing-from-first-principles culture he created at SpaceX, it wouldn't...

I firmly believe that SpaceX is currently seeding the next talent pool that's going to revitalize the entire American aerospace engineering. SpaceX is indirectly contributing massively to keeping America competitive in aerospace. The USA needs SpaceX more than they realize

Where's Starlink when I needed it!

Thanks for your reply

Honest question, guys. Or maybe dumb question?Why can't ULA just use Raptor engines from SpaceX. Raptor is a methalox engine, just like BE-4 from Blue Origin. So what's the catch?

It seems to me that politicians are brainless

I think Relativity Space will succeed and I wish them all the best. It's not going to be easy though. They'll encounter failures for sure. But if they press on despite the failures, I see them successfully emerging as a viable competitor to SpaceX.

I believe the lunar rover that will be used on the moon will most likely be the Tesla Cybertruck. No need for s bespoke solution

Maybe BO needs someone like Shotwell to get things done. I doubt if they could get someone like Elon Musk into their team. Very sad because they actually need a Shotwell and an Elon

I believe a short fall of gravitas is still under construction, according to a recent Musk tweet a month ago or so

I'm hopeful that Starship will have a bigger payload capacity than this Chinese super heavy rocket in the future

I read on Teslarati this morning that the 2 fairing halves were BOTH successfully caught on Ms Tree and Ms Chief. Could someone else please confirm this? Thanks

StarShip development coming along nicely

American government procurement for anything space or military is a mindboggling waste of epic proportions

Wow! This is absolutely amazing! Congratulations, Elon Musk/SpaceX! You guys did it! More to come!

If you think that's the case, then I have a bridge to sell you😁