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0 pointsjoe_915y ago0 comments

NASA also requires 10-100x more money & time to do so. Both just have very different ways of working. Both work and there are pro's and con's to either way!

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notum5y ago

I'll just leave Thunderf00t's latest video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxkE_oYrjU

Let's not diminish ether's breakthroughs, but financial isn't one of SpaceX's.

shazmosushi5y ago

That video was incorrect on so many levels that I have made a rebuttal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36o4UrS9OS4

raphaelj5y ago

How could you know? SpaceX never landed or sent a craft on a foreign body.

ALittleLight5y ago

SpaceX hasn't been around as long as NASA. Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?

thelean125y ago

> Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but... yes, of course NASA developed reusable rockets. The space shuttle missions reused the shuttles and the boosters.

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Rebelgecko5y ago

NASA doesn't really build rockets in-house, all of their reusable rockets were built by contractors under NASA's supervision. Sometimes NASA collaborated with other organizations (e.g. DARPA/military funding paid for a lot of the DC-X reusable rocket)

m4rtink5y ago

Well, nssa worked on Delta Clipper and DC-X. Also Venture Star. And the integrated powered demonstrator/FastTrack & pointless injectors that formed the basis of the Merlin engine IIRC.

smilespray5y ago

Didn't they reuse the solid rocket boosters for the shuttle? (Granted, they were delivered by Morton Thiokol and didn't function well in cold weather...)

joe_91OP5y ago

Haha, good point - we'll have to come back in 4-5 years time when SpaceX have touched down on the moon and mars and check the cost. Considering their low cost & speed at getting things into orbit these days and the plans they have for starship I hope that the data will prove me right in a few years

m4rtink5y ago

While this timeline might be optimistic, this is what came to my mind when I heard about the current timeline for Mars sample return - samples returning back to Earth in 2031.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_sample-return_mission#NAS...

Like it's nice to finally have a firmer timeline for that, but damn, 10 years from now. A SpaceX employee gathering the sample tubes into his backpack in a couple years time to be returned on the next milk-run flight back to Earth is just so much cooler! :)

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notum5y ago

I'll just leave Thunderf00t's latest video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxkE_oYrjU

Let's not diminish ether's breakthroughs, but financial isn't one of SpaceX's.

shazmosushi5y ago

That video was incorrect on so many levels that I have made a rebuttal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36o4UrS9OS4

raphaelj5y ago

How could you know? SpaceX never landed or sent a craft on a foreign body.

ALittleLight5y ago

SpaceX hasn't been around as long as NASA. Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?

thelean125y ago

> Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but... yes, of course NASA developed reusable rockets. The space shuttle missions reused the shuttles and the boosters.

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Rebelgecko5y ago

m4rtink5y ago

Well, nssa worked on Delta Clipper and DC-X. Also Venture Star. And the integrated powered demonstrator/FastTrack & pointless injectors that formed the basis of the Merlin engine IIRC.

smilespray5y ago

Didn't they reuse the solid rocket boosters for the shuttle? (Granted, they were delivered by Morton Thiokol and didn't function well in cold weather...)

joe_91OP5y ago

m4rtink5y ago

While this timeline might be optimistic, this is what came to my mind when I heard about the current timeline for Mars sample return - samples returning back to Earth in 2031.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_sample-return_mission#NAS...

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