I honestly don't think the launch could have gone worse (aside from blowing up on the pad).
With the incoming delays due to the pad being fucked and the regulators going mental, any goodwill SpaceX has will disappear as they become the ones delaying the return to the moon. I think in a few years the company is going to be cut into sections and sold to the traditional aerospace companies.
any goodwill SpaceX has will disappear as they become the ones delaying the return to the moon.
There's a very small number of people in our government who seem terrified of China beating the US back to the moon, purely from a PR standpoint (and they're all Biden's age). This new moon landing is as likely to work by 2028 as the Hyperloop, and it's all because they can't detach parasites like Musk from the project.
The space program doesn't exist to explore space, it exists to make money for the richest lizard-men on earth, and that's why whether it succeeds or not is meaningless.
I have no idea what their financials looks like but their Falcon 9 rockets are being used regularly so I don't see other aerospace companies taking them over
I honestly don't think the launch could have gone worse (aside from blowing up on the pad). With the incoming delays due to the pad being fucked and the regulators going mental, any goodwill SpaceX has will disappear as they become the ones delaying the return to the moon. I think in a few years the company is going to be cut into sections and sold to the traditional aerospace companies.
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The SLS was first supposed to fly in 2016 and first flew in 2022. I doubt most people could name the companies or reasons responsible for the delays
There's a very small number of people in our government who seem terrified of China beating the US back to the moon, purely from a PR standpoint (and they're all Biden's age). This new moon landing is as likely to work by 2028 as the Hyperloop, and it's all because they can't detach parasites like Musk from the project.
The space program doesn't exist to explore space, it exists to make money for the richest lizard-men on earth, and that's why whether it succeeds or not is meaningless.
I have no idea what their financials looks like but their Falcon 9 rockets are being used regularly so I don't see other aerospace companies taking them over
Going worse works have been the rockets flying off in different directions and maybe flying into a school of kids.