So I’m sure some people noticed that a big milestone in the realm of future commercial space travel and space colonization didn’t happen today.
Will Starship be seen soaring towards the sky on Thursday? Or will this project forever be marred with delays and empty promises? This is not the first time that SpaceX has attempted to launch their Starship platform, as they were originally hoping for a first orbital flight back in 2022. However, NASA put those plans on hold due to concerns that a possible explosion on the pad could damage NASA equipment.
I’m curious to see what everyone thinks! Give your thoughts and opinions, but as always, please be respectful and courteous to one another!
As for this, have you seen the official reason yet? SpaceX is saying that there was a faulty pressure valve. Apparently, it was pretty critical. So they are going to do some testing over the course of this week, in hopes for a Thursday launch.
Whatever view one has of Elon Musk, tenacity is a driving principle.
Combine that with embracing failure as a powerful leaning tool, a background in physics and economics, and a childhood immersed by the impression of a parent’s entrepreneurial habits, and you have a force to be reckoned with.
Part of embracing failure is tossing out promises that were discovered to be ill conceived during the push forward, and just going with whatever remnants of core value could be extracted in the process.
Constantly missing original schedules takes a backseat to moving forward.
Functional real-world applications of vast complexity are inherently impossible to schedule with any precision, at least when it is a product or feature which has never existed before.
Not remotely comparable in this context. Boeing Starliner is designed to compete with Dragon, not Starship. Boeing doesn’t even have a deep-space division! And on that note, Starliner has completed two successful orbital tests with a crewed launch slated for 2024.
I would agree, for right now! SpaceX Dragon has been flying successfully for just over 3 years now.
Starliner is still in development, and we haven’t seen it truly perform yet. It will be interesting to see which company starts to pull ahead once both capsules are operating. Boeing’s problem is they got late into the game. Starliner wasn’t developed until a few years after Dragon, so SpaceX was always going to be the early favorite.
Yeah 👍 , we will see, don’t know if ESA company is going to choose Boeing, but anyways, i’ll watch you in the space, it’s the most important, is to get and passs the Karman line safely and get in orbit!