Space X and Starship Fail Again

"A government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats..."

/s/Chicom puppet party

 

They have financial incentives to build rockets. They DO NOT have financial incentive to spend money on thought experiments which is where true innovation comes from

 

What thought experiments do you think NASA was working on? Pretty sure they were focused on getting technology that could get us to the moon and back in their heyday.

 

well hold there a second...somewhere in this thread someone mentioned Sports Bras...i'm sure a lot of thought went into that as well with great results.

 

Earlier you wanted to know about recent changes but it seems like now you're asking about old events. If we're talking about old events than gravity assist is an easy one

 

The point is that even JPL is contracting with SpaceX and other big defense contractors like Lockheed Martin on their NASA contracts. You keep acting like NASA and JPL are actually the ones building something when they are in fact dependent on the same companies you say are not developing anything innovative.

Here is the article I mentioned that discusses why NASA should move on from building rockets to hiring them from private companies.
Now is the time for NASA to blast into a new future

 

You keep talking about building things. I don't care about rockets and I don't care about the moon. We've been there and done that. If NASA contracts out manufacturing work, cool

 

So you think NASA should be an innovation lab just doing thought experiments?

 

First off, DOGE made recommendations on cutting waste, fraud, and cleaning up our archaic systems. They did not make cuts. Those cuts come in the form of rescission packages that have to be passed by Congress. Why do you continually spew untruths?

If you were intelligent, you would not be rooting against Elon and SpaceX or any space company he owns. Space is where we will get our energy from in the future. All of it. America needs to get there first. We cannot afford to have China winning that race. Right now, China is on the far side of the moon and has been for 2 years. Some speculate they are mining Helium-3. Helium-3, space solar, and nuclear are the future. Not your wasteful, dirty Earth solar panels and windmills that kill sea life and raptors. That is one of the things getting cut by the EPA. The Green New scam is over.

And let's not forget that it was Elon who said he could reuse rockets without burning them up. He was laughed at by almost everyone. That has saved quite a few bucks. He asked to use new technology not owned by him to cool his launching area so as not to waste millions of gallons of water. The technology actually takes the water from the air for free, and is super friendly to our environment. Guess why he was unable to use this technology that was so friendly to our earth. The government didn't know how to tax this brilliant way to collect water. It's called red tape. Our society would be so much further advanced if our government weren't so corrupt and lacked the forward thinking that our entrepreneurs do.

We landed on the moon in 1969. How has government space exploration advanced since then? Not much. It's brilliant American entrepreneurs that will help us combat this red tape and create the technology that will put us on top.

NPR is about to be defunded. They are a bunch of losers.

 

Thought experiments and innovation, yes

 

President Barack Obama's administration proposed to defund NASA's human spaceflight program, specifically the Constellation program.This program aimed to return American astronauts to the moon by 2020. Obama's budget proposal in 2011 shifted funding towards supporting private sector commercial spacecraft development instead

 

So we could have had Tesla’s driving on the moon for several years now

 

Wasn't it the fact we reached the moon, hit the goal, and the the Vietnam war and the Great Society focus ended up shrinking NASA's budget?

 

Isn't that what they have become?