It’s kinda went Boeing Boeing!
The space station astronauts peed a little when SpaceX got grounded. The alternative is to jump with a parachute.
I remember the old videos of rockets exploding on launch pads when we were first building them. We have come a long way.
I suspect they will just learn something new from this and they will last even longer.
I doubt this grounding will last long since it’s unlikely to affect other flights. They’re just looking for an understanding of why this happened and it could very well be due to some wear that wasn’t expected.
Why would they ground the whole fleet, the only bad outcome is economic for the company.
We don’t fuck around with rockets. If there’s a problem with one, we fix that problem with all of them first. Too much energy and velocities involved to just not care what happened and treat it like a common fender bender. Whatever caused this to happen could also maybe happen in flight and cause an accident.
i’d be more shocked if a spacex launch didn’t end in flames.
I’m sure SpaceX could land on the moon, there just isn’t an economic incentive to do that. NASA had a ton of failed launches before that happened, as well as several afterward. SpaceX’s record has been phenomenal.
Their CEO is a terminally online white nationalist anti-Semite who supports the overthrow of American democracy. I’ll be rooting against them and enjoying their every setback until that changes.
If I’m not mistaken SpaceX actually has mechanisms in place to prevent Elon from directly meddling too much in the engineering decisions.
They’re the reason SpaceX’s products mostly work as intended, unlike Tesla’s, Xitter’s, or The Boring Company’s.
Elon being distracted with Xitter and politics and whatnot probably also helps.
