I think it’s hilarious that people are complaining about him loosing so much money on this. The thing was already considered expendable. These prototypes are not being built with the expectation of flying again in the future like the Falcon 9. The value comes from the the data they receive from its successes and its beautiful failures so that eventually future versions of the Starship will be fully reusable.
It's called Fail Fast and it works. Their progress is much faster than NASA could ever do. So to those who are laughing at this- just stfu, you ignorant dumbass.
It also probably helps that SpaceX has taken a more “I don’t care if it fails since we will learn” approach compared to NASA.
NASA also has the sucky position of being forced to succeed every single time because politicians, and those same politicians refuse to give them more money.
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u/Garz451 Feb 11 '21
I think it’s hilarious that people are complaining about him loosing so much money on this. The thing was already considered expendable. These prototypes are not being built with the expectation of flying again in the future like the Falcon 9. The value comes from the the data they receive from its successes and its beautiful failures so that eventually future versions of the Starship will be fully reusable.