Mason wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:24 am
Elon gave It a 30% chance of success. They will analyze the data, make corrections, try another one, rinse, repeat. It’s different from how NASA does things but achieves things faster and cheaper in the end. NASA does great things but they are SLOW and expensive manpower intensive.
this.
I'm not privy to the goals of this test. I don't think they've been published...in their entirety. What I do know, one goal was to achieve a specific altitude. They did. Then the damn thing came back to where they wanted it.
It may very well be that this was a test of fuel, thrust, engine performance, and perhaps flight characteristics...and they weren't planning on expending fuel for a soft landing.
They already know how to land these things where they want them...they've been rather successful at that for a while now. When the guy, who paid out of his pocket, calls seeing his project erupt into a fireball a "success", I tend to defer to letting him spend his money as he sees fit.
I think it's pretty fucking spectacular them doing what they're doing without government oversight.
Subliterate Buffooery of the right...
Literate Ignorance of the left...
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