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The fact that Jeff Bezos was willing to ride his rocket past the Kármán line, but Elon Musk hasn't ridden his own rocket yet really speaks volumes about how much each billionaire trusts their product. (kbin.social)

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Common Elno, you gonna let that Bozo beat you to space? Pinky promise you won't be the next Stockton Rush, just do it already.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean I am not a fan of either the opposit is actually the case but you do realize that SpaceX is the only private company that can fly people to the ISS.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Their launch success rate is also extremely good. The Falcon 9 hasn't had a single failure since 2016 despite launching something like 230 times since then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And that is 100% not the work of Elon but the real engineers at the company. He has no fucking idea how his own rockets work.

He can't even figure out how Twitter works, thank god he isn't doing engineering on those rockets. (Though he absolutely would try if he had the chance, make no mistake. He doesn't because he's not a licensed aerospace engineer and he can't get away with pretending to be one in an industry so heavily regulated.)